In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from covid-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to protect against diseases like measles and whooping cough.
Florida & Beyond, and All Opinions
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 23, 2024
The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, the final words of a dying coal miner in the Fraterville mine disaster of 1902, a few words from Frank Kilgore’s “J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly.”
The Jet Stream, Climate Change and the Hottest Summer on Record
Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day. Here’s how heat domes, the jet stream and climate change influence summer heat waves and the record-hot summer of 2024.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 22, 2024
Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students, a few words about the great William Maxwell and his story, “Billie Dyer.”
When DEI Policies Work Best
While it’s easy to dismiss the backlash as purely a result of bigotry – as not all criticisms of DEI are made in good faith – it’s important to consider how DEI efforts themselves can be made to be more inclusive, in order to garner the support necessary to help society as a whole progress.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 21, 2024
Annual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup, Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, The Onion thinks print is the way of the future, Gregor von Rezzori in Lolitaland.
When the Mediterranean Dried Out: Lessons for Today
The Mediterranean’s drying out 5.5 million years ago, known as the Messinian salinity crisis, is the biggest extinction event suffered by the Earth since the meteorite that wiped out the flightless dinosaurs and ended the Mesozoic era 65 million years ago. No one knows yet how long it will take for marine life to recover from the kind of global-scale change that is currently underway.
Tech Matters: Why Cornel West isn’t on Florida’s Presidential Ballot
Despite earlier claims by his campaign, Cornel West is not on the Florida presidential ballots that supervisors of elections are sending to overseas and military voters, giving Floridians dissatisfied with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris one less option to vote for president this year. The campaign blamed “administrative technicalities.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 20, 2024
Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers are released this morning, Free For All Fridays on WNZF, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, an odd message about life insurance, the opening of “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
Israel’s Sophisticated, Illegal Attack on Hezbollah
The acts that apparently led Israel to strike Hezbollah are also illegal under international law. Hezbollah, a nonstate armed group supported by Iran, has no right to use violence of any kind, let alone missile strikes targeting civilians in northern Israel. But under law, hiding explosives in everyday objects makes them booby traps – and in almost every case, using a booby trap designed to kill is a crime.