Miracle of miracles, it no longer feels like we're living on the surface of the sun, just waiting for the life to steam right out of us and dissipate into the muggy air.

FRIDAY, NOV. 20:

Florida's unemployment rate dropped to a seven-year low as more jobs were created in the state in October than in any single month in the past ten years. Rick Scott said this calls for a billion-dollar tax cut for businesses, because sure, let's zero out the very real and badly needed gains in favor of a speculative investment in an uncertain future, I guess?

The NRA and another gun group are specifically targeting Republican state legislators that didn't want to go along with a bill expanding the powers of the "Stand Your Ground" law. "Targeting" is not a word anybody wants to hear in association with the NRA, I know, but it dovetails nicely with the fact that the NRA unarguably cares more about selling guns than preserving human lives.

SATURDAY, NOV. 21:

A Black Lives Matter protestor who disrupted a speech by Donald Trump in Birmingham, Ala. was physically assaulted by several of Trump's supporters. Later, Trump himself suggested that the protestor deserved to get "roughed up." This glimpse of America's potential future has been brought to you by the Department of I Know Things Are Weird Right Now, But Have You All Gone Fucking Crazy?

SUNDAY, NOV. 22:

The Bucs trounced the Eagles 45 to 17, going two for two for the first time in two years. Now that's sportsing!

And finally, continuing in the vein of unlikely things, the American Music Awards were last night, proving that some things continue to be things long after you've decided they aren't or shouldn't be things.

This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2015.