Monday was … not so bad, actually, provided you're not looking for any positive news with regard to healthcare (and who is, really?).
The Bolts beat the Blackhawks 3-2, putting themselves one step closer to winning another Stanley Cup and me one step closer to not having to think up hockey punchlines for a while.
*Adopts condescending tone* In other sports news, the Rays used their first draft pick — the 13th overall — to grab outfielder Garret Whitley. Also, somebody told me the NBA finals are happening. Could the rest of the sports world PLEASE stop spinning until we deal with a bunch of tough guys from the Windy City (and probably mostly Canada) basically impugning the fecundity of Tampa Bay's collective genitalia? SHEESH.
A 58-year-old computer analyst and retired Air Force major was arrested for those attacks on St. Pete realtors that made headlines over the past few days. The suspect has no record and, just to add to the lunacy, was being sought by cops for using the alias Robert Evans. Not to downplay the trauma his victims endured, but I really hope he charmed them with awesome stories about how a coked-up Jack Nicholson punched Robert Towne on the set of Chinatown.
And finally, a study of the U.S. hospitals that charge the most for their services — including insane markup on Medicare rates — found that nearly half of the top 50 are in Florida, and seven of those are in the Tampa Bay area. It baffles me that anyone over 50 with less than $1 million in the bank would vote Republican — I guess that sofa you bought with your $500 tax return is almost as comfortable as an affordable knee replacement would be, yes? NO.
Drawing of total knee replacement surgery via Wikimedia Commons.
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2015.
