In celebration of Friday's arrival, let's just blow through this and go get some barbecue, OK? OK:
Rick Scott, Florida's governor and also a villain from a 1930s movie-house serial, is defending the use of $700,000 in taxpayer money to settle a lawsuit brought against him and his administration for allegedly ignoring and stalling public records requests, while some in the state legislature question whether the payment was handled correctly in terms of where the funds came from. But come on, it's not exactly fair to expect someone who may or may not have spent his entire life just sort of accumulating millions of dollars meant for other people and things to understand the value and nuances of which moneys are actually meant for what...
Left-handed Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jake McGeehad surgery on his knee, and will likely miss the rest of the regular season. Wow, almost sounded like I knew what the hell I was sportsing about there for a minute.
A Pinellas County sheriff's deputyhas been suspended for carrying a loaded gun into a maximum security area of a Largo jail. In a wholly expected display of law enforcement's flawless sense of bureaucratic logic, the deputy is also being transferred off of court duty — to the Department of Detention and Corrections.
And finally, the house where "Buffalo Bill" lived in The Silence of the Lambsis up for sale. Nothing quite like tucking yourself in and drifting safely off to sleep secure within the walls of your own abode, is there? Man, I'd put out little baskets with little bottles of lotion in them everywhere.