Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
WTFlorida
Petition for Fiction
Personhood Florida officially launched their amendment petition for the 2014 election to recognize that life begins at the moment of conception. The Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment is one of many Personhood amendments that have popped up nationwide - and not even Mississippi voted for it.
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Tortilla Oven Kills Man
A man near Palm Beach Co. died last Tuesday after being crushed by a tortilla oven behind a closed supermarket.
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Dick vs Rick
Public Policy Polling reports Governor Rick Scott's approval rating has hit a record low, at about 26%. Richard Nixon received comparable support around the time of his resignation.
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EPA penalizes Clean Water Act violators, including three in Florida
The EPA has issued Consent Agreements and Final Orders against 25 entities in the south east for violating the Clean Water Act of 1977. Three of the penalties went to Florida wastewater utilities for disposing sewage improperly.
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Personhood Florida officially launched their amendment petition for the 2014 election to recognize that life begins at the moment of conception. The Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment is one of many Personhood amendments that have popped up nationwide - and not even Mississippi voted for it.
source
Tortilla Oven Kills Man
A man near Palm Beach Co. died last Tuesday after being crushed by a tortilla oven behind a closed supermarket.
source
Dick vs Rick
Public Policy Polling reports Governor Rick Scott's approval rating has hit a record low, at about 26%. Richard Nixon received comparable support around the time of his resignation.
source
EPA penalizes Clean Water Act violators, including three in Florida
The EPA has issued Consent Agreements and Final Orders against 25 entities in the south east for violating the Clean Water Act of 1977. Three of the penalties went to Florida wastewater utilities for disposing sewage improperly.
source
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
The freedom to bicycle in Tallahassee
My car has been fixed a while now but I decided to keep bicycling to work, anyway.
I recently learned that Florida ranked #1 this year for bicycle fatalities (NBC 2011) but it's only a 20 minute ride and I get a sense of autonomy and accomplishment at the end of every trip. My green-friendly conscience is eased, I get wicked exercise and I save gas money, too. So, why shouldn't I bike to work? Besides, accidents are more likely to happen on narrow roads without bike lanes (which Tallahassee certainly lacks) however I can gratefully say I have one the entire way. So why is it so effing stressful?
I do my part for you Tallahassee; I make a real effort to stay inside the bike track - in fact, I even give you half of that. I know you can see me, T-dawg. Even when it's dark I turn my flashing lights to "epileptic" so I am impossible to miss. Somehow you still act like I am invisible (or you're having a collective seizure but then I am pretty sure you shouldn't be driving).
And what morbid satisfaction do you get out of passing me miles above the speed limit, only inches away? How can I replicate this joyous experience? Maybe I should fly my bike at warp speed past a baby stroller in hopes of an instant diaper filling. Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
Somehow you're also entitled to have the right-of-way because I am on a bike and you're not. You're so blinded with certainty and rage that you honk at me; that must be car language for, "Check me out, I can make loud noises - that makes me a bad ass." And by bad ass, I mean douche bag.
You ride your bike to work? Oh wait - you're a hippy aren't you? Maybe if you didn't hate freedom so much, people wouldn't want to run over your hippy ass.
No, hippies are stereotypically docile. I am more, how you say, pissed off.
You might not prefer to bike to work but respect those that do (and oh yeah, their freedom to do it). You must be mixing up your Darwinisms; if your trickle down free market principles happens to make it more affordable for someone to bike to work (aka me in the beginning of all of this), that shouldn't translate to "your hippy ass needs to be run over."
Just saying.
I recently learned that Florida ranked #1 this year for bicycle fatalities (NBC 2011) but it's only a 20 minute ride and I get a sense of autonomy and accomplishment at the end of every trip. My green-friendly conscience is eased, I get wicked exercise and I save gas money, too. So, why shouldn't I bike to work? Besides, accidents are more likely to happen on narrow roads without bike lanes (which Tallahassee certainly lacks) however I can gratefully say I have one the entire way. So why is it so effing stressful?
I do my part for you Tallahassee; I make a real effort to stay inside the bike track - in fact, I even give you half of that. I know you can see me, T-dawg. Even when it's dark I turn my flashing lights to "epileptic" so I am impossible to miss. Somehow you still act like I am invisible (or you're having a collective seizure but then I am pretty sure you shouldn't be driving).
And what morbid satisfaction do you get out of passing me miles above the speed limit, only inches away? How can I replicate this joyous experience? Maybe I should fly my bike at warp speed past a baby stroller in hopes of an instant diaper filling. Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
Somehow you're also entitled to have the right-of-way because I am on a bike and you're not. You're so blinded with certainty and rage that you honk at me; that must be car language for, "Check me out, I can make loud noises - that makes me a bad ass." And by bad ass, I mean douche bag.
You ride your bike to work? Oh wait - you're a hippy aren't you? Maybe if you didn't hate freedom so much, people wouldn't want to run over your hippy ass.
No, hippies are stereotypically docile. I am more, how you say, pissed off.
You might not prefer to bike to work but respect those that do (and oh yeah, their freedom to do it). You must be mixing up your Darwinisms; if your trickle down free market principles happens to make it more affordable for someone to bike to work (aka me in the beginning of all of this), that shouldn't translate to "your hippy ass needs to be run over."
Just saying.
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