Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day. If you remember yesterday at all, congratulations on more-or-less attaining adulthood, or possibly not really being Irish. If, on the other hand, you do not remember yesterday, and feel as though perhaps yesterday hit you very hard with something, took your debit card and spent all your money at bars with names like O'crapimdrunk's, here's a refresher.
A stray bullet from a Plant City police firing range pierced a nearby home's back door and "apparently ricocheted around the kitchen." The good news is it isn't likely the bullet was fired by an actual Plant City police officer — BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WAS TRAINING PRIVATE SECURITY GUYS ON THE RANGE AT THE TIME. Sleep tight, America.
The "growler bill" aimed at allowing brewers to fill and sell 64-ounce bottles has cleared another legislative committee. If only there was an appropriate metaphor for changing potential legislation into laws that involved taking its elements, refining them, and then waiting patiently for them to come together in a final form that could be enjoyed by everyone...
A Tallahassee judgetossed out a legal challenge to the confidentiality agreement that basically creates a code of silence among Florida Department of Corrections employees, saying the gag order didn't violate any laws. So the state has basically turned its jails and prisons into taxpayer-funded Fight Club franchises, then.
And finally, bowtied Science Guy Bill Nyeis coming to give a lecture at USF on April 7! Because college curricula in this country have finally reached the educational equivalent of a syndicated television show from a decade and a half ago aimed at curious adolescents.