Peps Art Walk in the Hammock, coffee with Flagler Beach Commissioner Scott Spradley, how American comedy has become too safe on TV, the menace of George Wallace type politics.
Florida & Beyond, and All Opinions
Should We Care About Cricket?
In what has been dubbed “one of the biggest shocks in cricket history”, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup co-hosts USA beat Pakistan in a pulsating game on June 6. With seven runs needed off the last ball of a “super over” tiebreaker, Pakistan could only manage a single. Cricket is also hardly a mainstream sport in the US. Indeed, the New York Times suggested that many Americans were “oblivious to the magnitude” of the victory.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, June 28, 2024
Talking July 4 festivities on Free For All Fridays, an update in pictures from the renourishment project, Acoustic Jam Circle at the Community Center In The Hammock.
The Strange History of Journalistic Blackface
A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.” This is a presumptive, racially imaginative desire, one that covets not just the rhythm of Black life, but also its blues. Canadian-American journalist Sam Forster is one of those white people.
DeSantis Vetoes Occupational License Reform Bill Aimed at Broadening Opportunities and Reducing Recidivism
The bipartisan measure (HB 133) sponsored by Miami-Dade Democrat Kevin Chambliss and Seminole County Republican Rachel Plakon, would have reduced the time from five years to three years that the Barbers’ Board and Board of Cosmetology could use a criminal conviction as grounds to deny licenses.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Meet and Greet at the Palm Coast Community Center, with a straw poll, the first Kennedy-Nixon debate, Calvin Coolidge on the kind of America he saw.
At Columbia, You May Not Criticize Israel Without Getting Punished
After Editors of Columbia Law Review, a prominent journal run by students from the prestigious university’s law school, published an article critical of Israel, the board, which includes Columbia Law School faculty members and alumni, had the law review’s website taken down. The board soon relented and allowed the website back online on June 6, including the article in question. But it issued a statement accusing the student editors of failing to properly review the article prior to publication.
Ocala Prayer Vigil Organized by Police and City Officials to End Violent Crime Ruled Unconstitutional
Nearly a decade after the event was held amid a crime spree, a federal judge Wednesday ruled that the city of Ocala violated the U.S. Constitution in organizing and carrying out a prayer vigil. U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan issued a 50-page decision that sided with atheists, who argued the prayer vigil in a town square violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
The Flagler County Public Library Book Club discusses W. Bruce Cameron’s “A Dog’s Purpose,” Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Local Mitigation Strategy Meeting, what St. Paul got wrong about childhood.
France’s Snap-Election Dare to Right-Wingers: What’s At Stake
French president Emmanuel Macron told French citizens he had “decided to give [them] back the choice of our parliamentary future through the vote”. These words, pronounced in reaction to the historic surge of the far-right National Rally at the European elections, triggered the dissolution of France’s parliament and snap elections on 30 June and 7 July.