Government’s powerful and necessary job-creation engine, Romney tries to bail himself out of telling Detroit to drop dead, the joys of assisted suicide, Hef explains Playboy to William F. Buckley, young people’s reading and library habits, young adult slackers, and Flagler Jail bookings.
The Live Wire
The Psychology of Ignorance and How the Tea Party Is Helping Democrats: Five Reads Friday
The tea party is helping Democrats hold on to the U.S. Senate, Jon Stewart with Bill O’Reilly and Chris Wallace, an undercover cop in a Clay County charter elementary school, bombing Beirut, and the Flagler County jail bookings.
The Orlando Sentinel Endorses Romney
Right-wingers’ elation at the Romney endorsement aside, to call the Orlando Sentinel liberal of course is to seriously misread the house organ of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, central Florida edition.
Obama Wins Romney’s Binders Full of Women: Five Reads Wednesday
Obama wins the second one but not overwhelmingly, the lame rules of corporate debates, Romney’s binders of women, the Cuban missile crisis’s eyeball-to-eyeball myth, half your facts are wrong, a polarized electorate, Flagler jail bookings.
Environmentalist Lawyer Clay Henderson Is Stetson’s George and Mary Hood Award Recipient
Clay Henderson, the New Smyrna Beach lawyer and environmentalist who’s leaving his mark on Florida’s geography, is the 2012 recipient of Stetson University’s George and Mary Hood Award, one of the university’s most prestigious honors.
Military Dollars Vote Obama, Early Voting Wins in Ohio: Five Reads Tuesday
Obama is outraising Romney by almost 2-to-1 from military donors, the U.S. Supreme Court rejects a GOP attempt to limit early voting in Ohio, a video on why debates matter, torture at the Chicago police, humans at their fittest ever, plus Flagler jail bookings.
Farrakhan to Obama: Be A Little Black, Flipping Houses Booms Again: Five Reads Monday
Farrakhan suggests to Obama to “be a little black” at his next debate, Mitt Romney’s weird idea of tax studies, flipping houses booms again, Stephen Fry on swearing, the HPV vaccine and teen girls’ promiscuity (no connection), Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth’s Nobel, and Flagler County jail bookings.
Biden Bites Back, Drones Kill, Pot Gains: Five Reads Friday
Joe Biden restores order in the Democratic universe, Obama’s drone war, the police’s embrace of legalized marijuana, the European Union wins the Nobel peace prize, the psychology of big-wave surfing, and the usual Flagler jail bookings.
Seniors Are Overspending on Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan
Seniors spent on average $368 more than they needed to on drug coverage through Medicare Part D plans, their decisions complicated by the sheer volume of plans available–1,736 in all–and difficulties involved in determining what makes a plan a good choice, a Health Affairs study finds.
Mo Yan, China’s Rabelais, Wins Literature Nobel: Five Reads Thursday
A Deepwater Horizon-type slick forms in the Gulf, Florida wants to double charter school enrollment, Florida tops the foreclosure charts again, Gail Collins explains Democrats’ bipolar disorder, Mo Yan tells the story of modern China, and Flagler’s jail bookings.