Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs around 80. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Saturday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
The First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market, a flea market presented by the Palm Coast Arts Foundation, is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the foundation’s grounds, 1500 Central Avenue in Palm Coast’s Town Center.
“Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, is staged by Flagler Playhouse at 7:30 p.m. at Flagler Playhouse, 301 E Moody Blvd, Bunnell. Tickets are $25.00, and $20 for students 21 and younger with ID. Book tickets here.
Now this:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Scolds High School Students for Wearing Masks: A Closer Look
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August 2025
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Republican Club Meeting
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
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There are people who, like tigers, are greedy for blood. Those who have possessed unlimited power over the flesh, blood, and soul of their fellow-creatures, of their brethren according to the law of Christ, those who have possessed this power and who have been able to degrade with a supreme degradation, another being made in the image of God; these men are incapable of resisting their desires and their thirst for sensations. Tyranny is a habit capable of being developed, and at last becomes a disease. I declare that the best man in the world can become hardened and brutified to such a point, that nothing will distinguish him from a wild beast. Blood and power intoxicate; they aid the development of callousness and debauchery; the mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty in the form of pleasure; the man and the citizen disappear for ever in the tyrant; and then a return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible.
That the possibility of such license has a contagious effect on the whole of society there is no doubt. A society which looks upon such things with an indifferent eye, is already infected to the marrow. In a word, the right granted to a man to inflict corporal punishment on his fellow-men, is one of the plague-spots of our society. It is the means of annihilating all civic spirit. Such a right contains in germ the elements of inevitable, imminent decomposition.
–Dostoevsky, “Tales from the House of the Dead” (1861.)
Champ says
Governor DeSantis did not bully these students, he stated a fact about the mask and was expressing how there is no need for mask since they don’t work. I wish people would stop being so sensitive and stop the BS. People need to grow up and stop spreading lies. Enough enough with the bashing. Shame shame on all of you on the left it’s getting pathetic!
Gina Weiss says
Dostoevsky, “Tales from the House of the Dead” 1861: AND there are many out there like that! Ruling class don’t care about their citizens, all they care about is money and power.
Pierre Tristam says
There was nothing factual about the governor’s claims abut masks, as studies by the score have proven, as it’s been reported in every responsible medical journal or media. He, and apparently you, are comfortable not only with continuing to fabricate claims, but to use students to score ideological points. You use the right words in your last line but for its cardinal point.
Sherry says
@champ. . . “YOU” and DeSantis are wrong! Masks DO help to stop the spread of Covid. . . but, “You” know that. . . DeSantis knows that. . . Everyone knows that! However there may be no cure being a despicable “cult” member.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/masks.html
Wow says
I had to laugh. Biden says “I am going to appoint an African-American woman.”
GOP response: We don’t think she’s qualified.
Based Complex says
She hasn’t even been an appellate judge for a year. How is anyone in that position qualified for the supreme court? Picking judges based on immutable traits…. typical liberal move
Pierre Tristam says
Like Clarence Thomas, who had barely a year on an appellate court before Bush imagined him as the most qualified judge in the land to replace Marshall? Unlike Thomas, who did not have the eight prior years on the federal bench that Jackson has, nor the breadth of service on the Sentencing Commission and as a federal public defender? Immutable facts, yes.
Sherry says
@based. . . Get Educated!
trump’s “ultra conservative” picks=
kavanaugh with THREE credible accusations of sexual assault:
https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-misconduct-allegations-2018-9
Barrett= The NY Bar Association had definite reservations about her qualifications:
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/10/23/ny-city-bar-rates-amy-coney-barrett-qualified-with-reservations-for-us-supreme-court-seat/?slreturn=20220206180616
NotWoke says
The accusations concerning Justice Kavanaugh were exactly that, accusations.
Much like Senator Reid’s accusations that Senator Romney did not pay any taxes. When finally confronted with the truth, Reid simply stated that his lies worked, Romney was not elected.
Fortunately, Democrat mud slinging to see what might stick did not work this time, the accusations were deemed not credible and he was confirmed.
Justice Barrett was rated “highly qualified” by the American Bar Association, its highest rating. The NY Bar would never rate a conservative justice as qualified.
Ms. Jackson, regardless of her qualifications, was selected first because she is a black women, not because if her qualifications. I think that is at least unconstitutional. Not a good start to her term on the bench.
Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are probably not going to give her the disgraceful treatment that has been received by Republican president nominees since Justice Thomas’ political lynching, and she will likely be confirmed.