Tonight could be a very important one to the future face of American politics. It's kind of terrifying, really. But before we can look forward, we must, as always, look back.

The comparatively paltry $250K in incentives Hillsborough County offered the production of Bryan Cranston film The Infiltrator to shoot in Tampa last year yielded four times that in economic impact, according to a recent study. So, unlike Governor Scott's vague, expensive and open-ended attempts to lure business to Florida, throwing a few bucks at the movie industry pays off heavily and immediately. So of course we're not immediately doing more of that, all the time.

Disgraced shouty shirt-ripper Hulk Hogan is suing Gawker again, along with a few others including Tampa Bay area radio personality Mike "fka Cowhead" Calta, this time for leaking audio recordings of his racist tirade. He knows he can't sue his way to respectability, right?

And finally, the FBI thwarted a threat to a Jewish center in South Florida by providing the potential perpetrator with a fake bomb.The suspect is described as "unemployed, divorced and has no assets," which, OK, sounds like someone's playing a round of the Blame Game here. "My life sucks, I've got no prospects and I don't know how it came to this but it certainly isn't my fault so it must've been *spins wheel* the Jews!"

This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2016.