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Today at a Glance:
In Court: Leigha Mumby is in court for a 1:30 p.m. pre-trial before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols. Mumby faces two second-degree felonies and one third-degree felony, including a charge of vehicular homicide, in the car-crash death of Daniel Waterman on I-95 in Palm Coast on Feb. 9, 2025. See: “Leigha Mumby, 24, Now Faces Vehicular Homicide Charge in Crash Death of Boyfriend Daniel Waterman,” and “Critical After February Crash, Daniel Waterman, 22, Died on Oct. 8. His Pregnant Girlfriend Is Accused of Causing the Crash.”
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meets at 9 a.m. at the Airline Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport. The TPO’s planning oversight includes all of Flagler and Volusia counties, with board representation from each of those jurisdictions. See the full agendas here. To join the meeting electronically, go here.
Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s annual Wine Tasting Meet & Greet at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE, begins with check-in at 5:30 p.m. and runs to 8:30 p.m. Help us celebrate our 7th Anniversary! Enjoy an evening of live entertainment, wine tasting, engaging conversations, and savory heavy hors d’oeuvres. Join more than 100 community leaders, club members, and guests as we toast our year of notable regional and national speakers, and unveil the next season’s lineup during the evening’s ‘Big Reveal’. Sample premium, world-class wines presented by La Piazza Cafe and international hors d’oeuvres by World Plate. Tickets: $50. Register today at www.FlaglerTigerBayClub.com.
Conversations in Democracy: An open, freewheeling discussion on topics here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email atlanticcoastau@gmail.com or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at CAT9201@aol.com for location and information.
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Storytime: Bernard Malamud wrote “Take Pity” in 1956 and published it in his 1958 collection, The Magic Barrel. It’s pure Malamud. You don’t know where realism ends and magic begins, starting with the opening line about Davidov, a “census-taker,” barging into Rosen’s tenement apartment without knocking. Davidov is more like an insurance investigator. He’s trying to find out what happened between Rosen and Eva, the widow of a grocer who died, leaving her two young children and a failing grocery store in a poor neighborhood. We find out at the end that Rosen put his head in an oven and killed himself, or tried to kill himself. We don’t know if he did or not, whether this conversation is taking place in the afterlife or not, thought it has all the sounds and grime of New York City. Rosen tried to help Eva out of the neighborhood and her bankruptcy. She refused. He tried giving her money. She refused. He offered to marry her. She refused. ” In my whole life I never had anything. In my whole life I always suffered. I don’t expect better. This is
my life,” Rosen says. He just didn’t want to see Eva’s children suffer. As obstinately as he tries to help her, she obstinately rebuffs him. It is the obstinacy of pride becoming a tumor. “She told me to go away and I shouldn’t come back. I felt like to pick up a chair and break her head.” Rosen schemes to invent a person in Newark who supposedly owed Eva’s husband a big det. He starts sending her weekly amounts to pay back his debt. She figures it out, never takes the money. He despairs. She turns to hating him. That’s when he put his head in the oven. When Davidov raises the window shade Rosen had told him never to touch, there she was. “It was Eva, staring at him with haunted, beseeching eyes. She raised her arms to him.” “Whore, bastard, bitch,” he shouted at her. “Go ‘way from here. Go home to your children.” There’s ambiguity in that end: why would Eva, so hatefully indifferent to him, be at his window, even as an apparition outside of time? A haunt, maybe. The good deed’s eternal punishment. Beware who you choose to help.
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I am not writing a novel that obeys artistic principles, and, had I been, I would not have taken it upon myself to submit it to these principles. For I do not believe in them, nor do I attend to them, nor do I admit that the critics -whoever they may be are entitled to set down for me any rules or laws whatsoever. Nor do I accept from the reader, however high-placed he may be, any interference between me and whatever words I set forth. They are but words that occur to me and that I dictate, then publish. Whoever wishes to read them may do so and whoever grows weary of reading them may turn away. Whoever wishes to approve of them may do so with thanks, and whoever wishes to be scornful of them may also do so, with thanks.
–From Taha Hussein’s The Sufferers: Stories and Polemics, tr. Mona El-Zayyat (1955, tr. 1993).
Brynn Newton says
Rapeublicans haha rules for thee but not for me. They will complain about a democrat wearing a brown suit while their guy shits his pants, rapes children, and spreads terror around the globe.
Ed P says
Hello Brynn,
Your post is extreme. Could you point to any factual events that could ground the insanity I just read.
Or how’s bout next post, debate a policy or something productive, like a solution to a problem.
Skibum says
Ed P… does the name E. Jean Carrol ring a bell? Does a $5,000,000 sexual assault verdict point you in the direction toward the factual events you apparently are unable to conjure up on your own?
Here’s a solution to correct a big problem that many people are working on right now. It is called the midterm elections.
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
I’ll ask you the same questions then.
Child rapist? Reference brown suit? Shits pants? Global terror?
Don’t conflate.
The dude says
I still wake screaming in the middle of the night because of that tan suit…
Pogo says
September 11, 2001
Oh, well.
Today’s cartoon? SMH in despair that polite conduct, let alone aesthetics, applies in the slightest to President Goldfinger. The jaundiced Targaryen misfit has no parallel in vulgarity, stupidity, uselessness, and destruction. Duh.
And sincere thanks for reminders of people worthy of remembrance:
Blessed be your memory
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernard+Malamud
Blessed be your memory
https://www.google.com/search?q=Taha+Hussein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIf0rY20_R8
Jim says
Trump voted by mail in the recent primary election. He doesn’t want anyone else voting that way because there’s so much cheating going on. But, it’s okay for him to do it because he’s “special”.
The national debt is going to cross the $40Trillion very soon. When Trump took office for his first term, the debt was $19.95T. It increased by roughly $7.8 Trillion to $27.75 Trillion.
In Biden’s Term, the national debt increased by approximately $8.4 Trillion,
In Trump’s Second Term the debt has continued to expand by another $3.8 Trillion, now moving past the $40 trillion threshold.
Just for the humor of it: Trump said he’d pay off the national debt “quickly” when running for his second term. Much like almost everything he says, that was just another lie he fed to the gullible.
Apparently the “Big Beautiful Bill” and the Iran war are the two biggest contributors to this surge.
You all keep supporting this liar. He may have already driven us into a financial canyon we can not get out.
Laurel says
Capitalism has peaked. The almighty God, the dollar, has been replaced by the bitcoin. That elusive thing in the ethereal, that is backed by nothing but greed. Trump has his own bank. Don’t worry about it, just kick the can down the road. What’s a few school lunches? The *Republicans* won’t cry about the debt until a Democrat is in office. Then, the sky will fall.
Ed P says
Hello Laurel,
What does capitalism has peaked mean?
That nonsense has been kicked around for 150 years.
That’s a Marxist concept from his 1867 work-Das Kapital.
His disciples have been like climate alarmists saying the world was going to end due to climate change.
Laurel says
Cut the Marxist crap, please. That stuff doesn’t fly with me.
Capitalism is fine, but when it’s just the small group of the money corrupted succeeding, and all we care about is money at the expense of people, due to manipulation, then it has peaked. We are now in trouble, and in severe debt. Meanwhile, the President of the United States is gilding all the kitsch he can, while kids don’t have food to eat, and him posting like a mindless fool, you see nothing wrong here?
Be a climate denier; I’ll be a tree hugger. I see the trees being cut down around us, concrete poured everywhere, the glaciers melting at a fast rate, fires burning all over the world, and floods in places that never had flood before. Pretty hot summer, wouldn’t you say?
I will believe scientists over politicians every time.
Every time.