"I hate Mondays," said Garfield, who was apparently under the impression it made him edgy, or something.
Same-sex couples in Miami-Dade County got a jump yesterday on the stay holding up marriage licenses, as a judge in that county voluntarily lifted it himself, and Florida's first gay couples were legally married. Some bigoted groups are still saying this isn't the end, but it's really tough to hear their whining over all of the justice and common sense and love and tolerance and equality.
Gawker reported on an Okeechobee County man who called the sheriff and requested law-enforcement supervision as he spanked his daughter, to make sure his brand of corporal buttocks-swatting was legal. (It was; furthermore, this wasn't the first time area cops had been called out to witness old-fashioned child-rearing techniques.) Cops statewide are saying this whole "Hey, come watch this and let me know if it's illegal" trend might also really help them out when it comes to APPREHENDING MORONS.
According to a BBC report, law enforcement entities in American cities are finally beginning to wade into their horrifying backlogs of thousands upon thousands of untested rape kits, some going back as far as the 80s. An insane, paranoid anti-authoritarian conspiracy theorist might suggest this was a desperate effort to deflect current nationwide criticism of police procedures, so I just did.
Hillsborough cops stopped a driver going the wrong way on Veterans Expressway, raising the number of motorists who have either been stopped or caused accidents by driving in the opposite direction along Bay area thoroughfares in the last few months to way, way too fucking many. Shouldn't we be weeding these people out of the driving pool right at the DMV, when they accidentally wait for 45 minutes in the "boat trailer turn signal certification" line while trying to get their licenses renewed?
And finally, gas prices in Tampa Bay reportedly dropped a dime in the space of a week. Congratulations to the dime for suddenly, if briefly, appearing to be an amount of currency worth consideration once again.
(Image of gas can via Wikimedia Commons.)
This article appears in Dec 25-31, 2014.