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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 15, 2025

August 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

What a kid did on his summer vaca by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
What a kid did on his summer vaca by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105. Friday Night: Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 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 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. Today’s guests: Palm Coast City Council member Dave Sullivan, Palm Coast Community Development Director John Zobler, and Palm Coast Communications Director Brittany Kershaw. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.

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: These few lines from War and Peace suggest doom-scrolling is not a social media invention: “One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?- there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such excitedly animated and healthy men. So thinks, or at any rate feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that takes place at such moments.”

—P.T.

 

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December 2025
flagler beach united methodist church food bank
Thursday, Dec 11
9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church
Courts around Florida are overworked and need more judges, the Supreme Court found. While the 7th Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler County, was found to need some additional judges, Flagler County was not among divisions considered in need. (© FlaglerLive)
Thursday, Dec 11
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Dec 11
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
flagler county democratic executive committee
Thursday, Dec 11
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
flagler beach city commission logo
Thursday, Dec 11
5:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting

Flagler Beach City Hall
Thursday, Dec 11
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
Thursday, Dec 11
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series

Whitney Laboratory Lohman Auditorium
Thursday, Dec 11
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre

irving berlin
Thursday, Dec 11
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

Athens Theatre
Thursday, Dec 11
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy

Daytona Playhouse
pierre tristam on the radio wnzf
Friday, Dec 12
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF

WNZF
palm coast democratic club
Friday, Dec 12
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Friday Blue Forum

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Friday, Dec 12
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
Bronx wanderers
Friday, Dec 12
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center

Flagler Auditorium/Dennis Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, Dec 12
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre

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In a letter to a lady, Diderot quoted something Francesco [Casanova, Giacomo Casanova’s artist brother] said about the uncertainty of life, which suggests that he shared Giacomo’s wit. Francesco had stepped aside in the street to let a companion urinate against a wall, when a collapsing chimney fell from above and killed the companion. “I always recall Casanova’s comment,” Diderot wrote. “Believe that our fate is enveloped in utter darkness, and step aside for someone who wants to take a piss.”   

–From Leo Damrosch’s Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova (2022).

 

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  1. Pogo says

    August 15, 2025 at 11:03 am

    @P.T. — at his best

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