Need something to temporarily wash the taste of politics out of your psychic mouth? Fair season officially kicks off today, with the opening of the Hillsborough County Fair! When you get out of work, go get an elephant ear and win yer sweetie a giant stuffed raccoon, and we'll circle back around to the soul-sucking tediousness of reality when you're ready. But first:
A Polk County inmate on a work crew got his hands on a knife, kidnapped a cop, and absconded in a city vehicle before being re-arrested in St. Pete. Sing it with me: "Aaaand nobody shot hiiiiim/because he was whiiiiiite…"
This wonderful story broke yesterday about three Bay area nurses who saved a man's life on a flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta. There is indeed grace and goodness in the world, it's just not running for office this year.
And finally, Johnson & Johnson is bringing a "North America Global Services Center" and 500 jobs to Tampa. I'm sure there are plenty of "well-educated millennials" who can't wait to go to work for a company that lost a lawsuit over its talcum powder causing cancer, because if there's one thing I never see the kids doing, it's being passionate about corporate ethics and social justice.
This article appears in Oct 20-27, 2016.
