It was the weekend that was.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19:
At a GOP event in Hillsborough, presidential hopeful Jeb Bush announced he will make Tampa home to his Florida campaign headquarters. Oh, good. We get the guy whose ideas are too divorced from reality to play in Miami?
Florida's unemploymentrate rose to 5.7%, up .1 percent over both April's statewide jobless numbers and the May national average. Pinellas and Hillsborough counties are both up slightly from last month, as well. Local pundits attribute the uptick in joblessness to the cops busting all the weed houses in the area, trimming what was unarguably a growth industry. (Get it? DO YOU GET IT?!)
SATURDAY, JUNE 20:
Former Buc and NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp, who last made the papers in the bad way in February for allegedly hiring and beating on Phoenix hookers during the Super Bowl, is reportedly being investigated in a domestic abuse complaint. The incident occurred in Las Vegas, but didn't involve a prostitute, as Sapp would like to stay on the sex worker union's good side, for obvious reasons. (Full Disclosure: A "got between him and the buffet" joke was tried and rejected for this bit.)
SUNDAY, JUNE 21:
A 23-year-old Orlando area man accidentally shot himself in the leg during a gun safety class. Given that this happened at a pawn shop with its own shooting range, we can only say we're surprised it wasn't the instructor again this time.
And finally, Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Churchwas open for Sunday services less than a week after the racially motivated (yes, fuck you Fox News, it certainly was) shooting that took nine lives. Because you can't kill love.