Let's play a workplace drinking game. Whip up a batch of margaritas in the break room after lunch, then do a little mini-'rita shot every time a coworker says "Invest 99L," "tropical system" or "spaghetti model."
A two-year USF study's results suggest that police officers who wear body cams are less likely to use force than those who do not. And here we bet you didn't even know USF had a Department Of Investing Considerable Time And Resources Into Validating The Seemingly Really Quite Obvious. It's over in the Derf Building.
The Florida Supreme Court permanently disbarred the other two lawyers found guilty of ethics violations in setting another attorney up to be arrested for DUI in last year's high-profile MJ-vs-Bubba case. It's almost as if professionally associating oneself with a shock jock creates its own self-fulfilling sleaze prophecy.
And finally, more than half of the 2,000 cars broken into so far this year in Hillsborough County were unlocked. Who the hell doesn't lock their car? I'm not saying if you leave your car unlocked you deserve to have it (and then your house and other car) broken into, but leaving your car unlocked because you wish you lived in a world where you can leave you car unlocked doesn't make it so. Are we blaming cell phones? Let's blame cell phones.
This article appears in Aug 25 – Sep 1, 2016.
