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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 3, 2025

August 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lunatic Fringe by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com
Lunatic Fringe by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com

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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Partly sunny, with a high near 91. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

  • 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:

  • Flagler County Sheriff's Expo 2025

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.

Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.

Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.


Notably: Funnily idiotic: Trump pretending he’d read Bonfire of the Vanities when he had not, but who really read that book, bestseller though it was? It was the kind of bestsellers people buy or gift to each other but never really read, like most of Tom Wolf’s books, entertaining though they can be (he’s good at set pieces, but he’s not the Balzac or Zola type novelist he thought he was. No snob can be. I vaguely remember reading Bonfires. The note in the back of the book tells me it was December 2012. Its 660 pages did not leave an impression, though for some reason I marked out this passage on page 432: “And in that moment Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. For the first time he realized that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps, love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. And now that boy, that good actor, had grown old and fragile and tired, wearier than ever at the thought of trying to hoist the Protector’s armor back onto his shoulders again, now, so far down the line.” It occurs to me, as it should occur to anyone reading that passage, that it might have done Trump good to have read it.

—P.T.

 

Now this:


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August 2025
Sunday, Aug 03
9:30 am - 10:25 am

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Grace Presbyterian Church
grace community food pantry
Sunday, Aug 03
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Aug 03
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village

European Village
al-anon family groups logo
Sunday, Aug 03
3:00 pm

Al-Anon Family Groups

Silver Dollar II Club
flagler county commission government logo
Monday, Aug 04
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting

Government Services Building
Monday, Aug 04
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting

Beverly Beach Town Hall
nar-anon family groups palm coast
Monday, Aug 04
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
flagler beach city commission logo
Tuesday, Aug 05
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
flagler beach city commission logo
Tuesday, Aug 05
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board

Flagler Beach City Hall
palm coast logo
Tuesday, Aug 05
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Palm Coast City Council Meeting

Palm Coast City Hall
bunnell logo
Tuesday, Aug 05
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board

Government Services Building
Tuesday, Aug 05
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy

Cinematique of Daytona Beach
No event found!

For the full calendar, go here.


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Kramer was dying to look at McCoy, but decided to be cool and professional. What does a rat look like when he’s listening to himself being a rat in a room full of people who know he’s a rat— going wired to see his girlfriend? Unconsciously, but profoundly, Kramer was relieved. Sherman McCoy, this Wasp, this Wall Street aristocrat, this socialite, this Yale man, was as much a rat as any of the drug dealers he had wired up to go rat out their species. No, McCoy was more of a rat. One doper didn’t expect much from another. But in these upper reaches, upon these pinnacles of propriety and moralism, up in this stratosphere ruled by the pale thin-lipped Wasps, honor, presumably, was not a word to be trifled with. Yet backed to the wall, they turned rat just as quickly as any lowlife. This was a relief, because he had been troubled by what Bernie Fitzgibbon had said. Suppose the case had not, in fact, been investigated carefully enough? Maria Ruskin had corroborated Roland’s story before the grand jury, but in his heart he knew he had pushed her pretty hard. He had put her in a small tight box so fast she might have —He preferred not to finish the thought.

–From Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities (1987).

 

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    August 3, 2025 at 7:53 am

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    August 3, 2025 at 8:06 am

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