The weather cools, and the weird news comes outside in an ugly new sweater.
After dropping for four straight years, an annual report showed that Florida's debt rose slightly. Listen, we can hate on Rick Scott all we want for being plutocratic ghoul who sustains himself by sucking the financial marrow from our state's badly needed medical infrastructure, but he did keep the debt down. All it took was fastidiously not caring about human health or welfare. Zing!
Duran Duran, a touring commercial for Nagel prints and original episodes of Miami Vice, is coming to town in April. Girls who were 13 the year Gandhi won a Best Picture Oscar are freaking the hell out.
A Brevard County burglary suspect is assumed to have been partially eaten by a 10-foot gator while attempting to elude authorities. There's no justice like swamp justice, I (and EC Comics) always say.
And finally, cans and vacuum-packed bricks of coffee have been washing up on shore around Florida's Space Coast, ostensibly from some cargo that fell off a barge. If you're looking for a little extra oomph in your offshore sportfishing, now is the time.
(Image by cuatrok77 via Wikimedia/Creative Commons.)
This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2015.