Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
On Free For All Fridays on WNZF, host David Ayres welcomes members of Flagler-Palm Coast’s Ukrainian community to talk about the Russian invasion and Ukrainian resistance, starting a little with my commentary on the same subject.
First Friday in Flagler Beach, the monthly festival of music, food and leisure, is scheduled for this evening at Downtown’s Veterans Park, 105 South 2nd Street, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is overseen by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and run by Laverne M. Shank Jr. and Surf 97.3
“Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, is staged by Flagler Playhouse at 7:30 p.m., 301 E Moody Blvd, Bunnell. Tickets are $25.00, and $20 for students 21 and younger with ID. Book tickets here.
The 13th Paralympics Games open in, unfortunately, Beijing today, and run through March 13.
Notably, ominously: Grover Cleveland was inaugurated for the second time, but for a non-consecutive term, as president on this day in 1893, a feat Donald Trump will hope to repeat in 2024. The 1893 election was more scabrous then most, at least before elections featuring Trump: Cleveland was attacked for his particularly fertile affairs (a great moralizer, he fathered a child out of wedlock) while his opponent, James Blaine, was ripped for his infamous “burn this letter” command at the end of a letter proving that as a congressman he took bribes from many businesses. Cleveland became the target of the election’s most famous verses: “Ma, Ma, Where’s my Pa?/Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.” Cleveland was the first “Democrat” elected president since 1856. Kurt Anderson in “Evil Genius,” his 2020 book, described Jimmy carter as Jimmy Carter, “the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland.” In Houston, Minn., today is also the first of three days of the International Festival of Owls.
Now this:
John Mearsheimer: Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault?
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June 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Bunnell History Day
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Al-Anon Family Groups
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“This is an individual who now has a 40-mile convoy of artillery facing him down. And you know, I don’t know how you Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid this thing. I don’t know how you get out of this. And the other side of it is, I think I’m still a little bit in shock as to anytime newsreels come to life, I think there’s always a little sense of Oh, right. This shit’s way more fragile than we probably gave it credit for. And I think I’m still in a little bit of that, like, wait, are madmen still allowed to roll tanks through borders? And there’s also a little chauvinism involved I think, because, quite frankly, you know, Saudi Arabia is still bombing the shit out of Yemen. We bombed the shit out of Iraq. Like, I’m not saying it’s an analogous situation. But those human beings on the other end of those armaments are as human being-y as the ones in Ukraine that you know, everybody’s got their flags up, and there are other things and right now, around the world, there are communities in terrible suffering from Yemen, to Palestinians to all around the world.”
–From “Jon Stewart on Why the Right Would ‘Rather Deal With Putin Than Pelosi,’” a recorded interview with The New York Times, March 3, 2022.
Sherry says
Truly a “Deathsantis” Move! Now this monster is even “fund raising” off of his bullying children! Despicable!
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/03/desantis-defends-scolding-students-over-masks-fundraises-00013818
wow says
I can’t imagine how those kids felt. Up in front of a audience, probably nervous, probably worried how to act and wanting to look adult. And the first thing that happens is this bully berates them and basically calls them idiots and tells them to take mask off and stop the “Theatre”. How humiliating. I bet they will never forget how stupid he made them feel. Great example of how to be a leader. DeSantis is just pathetic.
Steve says
He hasnt the mentality nor patience for Public Office. Its all about him and what he believes to be the Truth. Another Narcissist who will do nothing but create chaos in an attempt to hide failure or the real issues at hand. All one needs to see is this video to come to a negative conclusion