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Weather: Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. North winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Florida Supreme Court releases opinions at 11 a.m.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
From the Clip Files: Esquire Magazine decided to mark its 30th anniversary in 1991 with “The Dubious Achievement Awards–From Tricky Dick to Long Dong Silver.” Reember Long Dong Silver, the porno Clarence Thomas, as he was lusting for his supreme court judgeship, was said to have discussed with Anita Hill as he harassed her, and as Joe Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, enabled him, down to refusing to have a proper investigation of the Hill allegations, and thereby ensuring the confirmation of Thomas by a two-vote margin? Thomas has been laughing since. He made Esquire’s awards: “Now we know how justice went blind.” That year Geraldo published an autobiography with lines worthy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, minus the style (which is just about the only thing Rousseau really had going for him), describing himself as “a grunting voracious pig in heat” and having sex with Bette Midler, Judy Collins and Margaret Trudeau (I’m beginning to remember why I stopped subscribing to Esquire long, long ago). This goes on for 20, 30 pages. Vanilla Ice. Michael Ovitz. Brooke Shields. Norman Schwarzkopf. And this little gem, under the heading: “We don’t really give a shit: Donald Trump and Marla Maples announced their engagement.” Darryl Strawberry. Imelda Marcos (declaring that a volcano’s eruption was god’s punishment of the government not allowing her husband’s body to be buried in his homeland). Ted Turne. The first George Bush. Al Sharpton accusing Elizabeth II of racism. “Eleven-year-old Mark Harman of London, England, learned to do his homework while lying on a bed of four hundred nails with his six-year-old sister sitting on top of him.” That was under the heading: “Why can’t he abuse himself in the normal way?” Enough.
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet. But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly;—not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon.
—From Melville’s Moby-Dick (1852).
Bill C says
Read Walter Isaacson’ s biography of Elon Musk, who is on the autism spectrum, and to see how, despite his genius, he is completely dissociated from empathy for others.