Happy Cinco de Mayo! Let's play a drinking game: Every time you overhear someone erroneously calling today "Mexican Independence Day," just quietly continue to drink your drink, because we're all just supporting characters in a never-ending farce. Ole, or whatever.
The weather was not kind to the Tampa Bay area yesterday, flooding the streets and knocking out power. Or, you know, "early summer."
Four St. Pete schools were locked down in the wake of a shooting at Central and 42nd Street that left a man dead. This is what currently passes for a “teachable moment.”
And finally, The Justice Department told North Carolina that its marvelous-publicity-generating "bathroom bill" violates the Civil Rights Act, and cannot be enforced. A similar public ordinance was also overturned in Oxford, Alabama. Score two for the good guys. And if you're thinking, "What good guys? The gays? The cross-dressers? The deviants and their supporters?", then rest easy knowing you're one of the bad guys.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2016.