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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny and hot, with a high near 95. Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 77.
- 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. Join a Ranger the First Friday of every month for a garden walk. Learn about the history of Washington Oaks while exploring the formal gardens. The walk is approximately one hour. No registration required. Walk included with park entry fee. Participants meet in the Garden parking lot. The event is free with paid admission fee to the state park: $5 per vehicle. (Limit 2-8 people per vehicle) $4 per single-occupant vehicle. Call (386) 446-6783 for more information or by email: [email protected].
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: In Andrew Roberts’s hagiographic 2014 biography of Napoleon–a pre-Trumpian orgy of admiration and justifications for the Corsican dictator–Roberts gives us one of those toadying bits about Napoleon’s intellect, after he is elected to the Institut de France: “Napoleon was a bona fide intellectual, and not just an intellectual among generals. He had read and annotated many of the most profound books of the Western canon; was a connoisseur, critic and even amateur theorist of dramatic tragedy and music; championed science and socialized with astronomers; enjoyed conducting long theological discussions with bishops and cardinals; and he went nowhere without his large, well-thumbed travelling library.” The question is: so what? What has intellect to do with morals, justice, ethics? This line from Anthony Burgess’s 1985 occurs to me: “A commandant who had supervised the killing of thousands of Jews went home to hear his daughter play a Schubert sonata and cried with holy joy… the good of music has nothing to do with ethics.” Or this one from Omar el Akkad: “The man who put the bullet in the little girl’s head might return to coach Little League games. The patrol that opened fire on the starving civilians might meet up every now and then for karaoke nights.” Or this from Dostoevsky’s “Eternal Husband,” the 1970 short story: “The most monstrous of monsters is he who has noble feelings.” Aesthetics is not ethics. Aesthetics can and I think is as often as not is a mask for ethics, the way clubbish aristocrats use manners as an exclusionary tool–the way, incidentally, the right-wing mobocracy tore into Justice Jackson after she used a few colloquialisms in her recent dissents. “Is there a real connection between man’s soul, his higher sensibilities, and his artistic ability?” the historian Hendrick van Loon asked in his history of the arts. His answer was a stark No.
—P.T.
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August 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
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
Flagler’s Back to School Jam 2025
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
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–From Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961).
Pogo says
@Slouching toward Trumpmorrah
… with only a copy of Project 2025 in its pockets, Russell Vought’s finger in its ass — and song in its heart:
Little House in Bethlehem
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+new+ballroom
Laurel says
“necessary renovation”
The White House now has to try and keep up with Trump’s enormous ego. All the “patriotic donors'” names will surely be etched on plaques for We the People to enjoy from a distance.
Brian says
Funny, we never saw any political cartoons of the last press secretary Buckwheat, with the toilet-bowl-cleaner head – now there’s a true cartoon character!
James says
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/
Cashier — “That’s one loaf of whole wheat bread, a dozen eggs, three bags of dry beans, two bottles of tomato sauce and two bananas.
That’ll come to two Stallones, three Eastwood’s, one Schwarzenegger, a Bronson and five Washington’s… Denzel Washington… we no longer accept any of that old “funny money.”
Grocery shopper — “Here ya go… two Stones, an Ozzy, a Presley, two Berry’s, and one Santana.
Cashier — “Fine… here ya go, your change and receipt. Thanks for your patronage. Next.
Grocery shopper — “Wait, there must be some mistake, two Pat Boone’s and a Jimmy Buffett?”
Cashier — “Oh yeah, we only accept actor meme coin… all other memes are subject to the prevailing exchange rate… in addition to the usual transaction fee of course. Next.”
Grocery shopper (walking out) — “Wow, two Pat Boone’s and Buffett? I guess I’ll really have to start clipping those ABBA coupons.”
James says
Btw, I should note that “meme” coins are not really to be confused with a crypto currency… namely Bitcoin.
Which in my opinion isn’t actually a currency, but more of a decentralized credit/debit card.
One of the oldest (but best, in my opinion) books that attempted to explain Bitcoin and the then new blockchain technology was “Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain,” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos.
Just a clarification.
Some twisted leadership says
There was a group in the 1920s and 30s that did eerily similar things . Ultimately millions died because of it. Enjoy the forced recession!!