Good morning. Remember when our political leaders set the example for righteous behavior, and it was our rock stars who said ignorant inflammatory shit before walking it back with truculent semi-apologies? Yeah, the world's gone topsy-turvy since then.
A 48-year-old Tampa man was arrested for taking upskirt photos of a 21-year-old woman in an Oldsmar Starbucks with his phone. If only there were a more easy, private, legal, not-a-disgusting-and-traumatizing-invasion-of-privacy way to get material for masturbation into one's phone…
Speaking of ill-advised shots, a convicted felon arrested in December after his gun went off during a strip club selfie in St. Pete was sentenced to more than six years in prison. That's gonna seem like forever once everybody on the block finds out it was accidentally popping off in a skin-joint bathroom that put him back in jail.
An 18-year-old Pasco County high school senior was arrested late Sunday night for posting a message on Facebook threatening to kill a former teacher. Maybe she was mad that the teacher never offered a "Computers, Common Sense & You" course.
And finally, somewhat notable American human Taylor Swift won her one-dollar countersuit against a DJ who claimed she got him fired after falsely accusing him of groping her. Swift turned what many less influential young female performers might've been forced to let go as "just something you have to deal with in this business" into a symbolic victory for all women, and she did with smarts and style.
This article appears in Aug 10-17, 2017.