Good morning! If you live with a former rock star who was popular anytime during the late ’60s through the ’70s, please go check on them now.
In addition to Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey, we also lost Mott The Hoople drummer Dale Griffin, porno-rapper Blowfly, Crosby, Stills & Nash drummer Dallas Taylor (Whoops, he died last year), and professional wrestler “Iron Mike” Sharpe. Hopefully Death is just trying to get all of the celebrity stuff out of the way early so he can spend the rest of the year working on evil folks.
A 14-year-old Pasco boy was arrested for making a false bomb threat against Pine View Middle School in Land O’ Lakes. On his Instagram account. Well, on the bright side, there’s a chance he might actually learn something…
As her sentencing date approaches, the former Tampa Police officer who pleaded guilty to stealing IRS tax return checks from evidence claimed she did it to escape her terrible marriage to another cop. Well, the “getting away from her husband” part is certainly gonna happen, it looks like.
And finally, mammoth children’s books publisher Scholastic has pulled a picture book called A Birthday Cake for George Washington, because it might be perceived as whitewashing in its somewhat upbeat portrayal of slavery, even though the book was produced by a committee that included several people of color. Um … OK, let’s just … er … *just turns and leaves the conversation without saying anything else*
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2016.
