It's a great day to look back and compare today to yesterday, because really, what day isn't a great day to do that?
A Pinellas County deputy used the Heimlich Maneuver to save a choking woman at a Clearwater IHOP. For the sake of decency, we'll skip over the one about how maybe someone choking to death in an IHOP might be trying to end the existential torment that stems from an existence in which one eats at IHOP, and just call this guy a hero, which he is.
Taxi companies in Tallahassee and Fort Lauderdale sued Uber and Lyft just as Hillsborough moves forward with a proposal for regulation. Do you think that the first amphibians that crawled from the water eons ago took one look at their developing limbs, found them strange and unacceptable, and died trying to gnaw them off? We coulda been another 1,000 years along by now…
Presidential candidate and person who doesn't experience reality in remotely the same way you do Jeb Bush will reportedly propose a tax plan that includes cutting corporate taxes from 35% to 20%. Once upon a time, America was prosperous because business provided a considerable percentage of the government's tax income; and then that burden was shifted to individuals, and the upper echelons of business became more prosperous, and America less so. Now, America is less prosperous than ever, and this is a fact directly attributable in part to corporations paying lower taxes, and Jeb Bush thinks, or at least says, that cutting those taxes further is going to help make America prosperous again. Sure, OK. *looks for something harder than a shoe with which to bash own head in frustration*
And finally, flailing sports franchise The Tampa Bay Rays announced that this coming Saturday home game against Boston will be Star Wars Night, complete with a "Han Longo" bobblehead. To be honest, I'm not sure I'd even want to find out definitively whether or not even a Star Wars Night could boost my flailing sports franchise, but that's just me.
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2015.