This car was headed in the direction of Land O’ Lakes, which promotes itself as the “Nudist Resort Capital of the World”, and where the neighborhood scenes where Edward Scissorhands were filmed.
I leave making a connection between the two to the Gentle Reader.
It sounds like something from Star Wars, but Executive Order 9066 was issued on February 19, 1942 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, giving the Secretary of War the authority to declare certain areas of the United States as military zones, which then set the stage for Japanese-American internment camps. About 120,000 American citizens and immigrants of Japanese ancestry were forcibly relocated from their homes, businesses, and ways of life. 80,000 of them, such as Star Trek’s George Takei and former Secretary of Transport Norm Mineta, were second- and even third-generation.
Photo from Wikipedia. Click to see the source.
Let’s remember internment survivors and all the communities that continue to have their civil liberties violated today simply because of where they came from.
Thanks to 18 Million Rising for the reminder!
The results are in from TripAdvisor’s users, and it turns out that Accordion Bay’s got the number one beach in the U.S.: Clearwater Beach! They cited its 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometres) of “powder sand and calm, shallow water”. It may be a bit of a bummer if you’re looking for surfing action, but if you want to swim, waterski, boogie board, kayak, or parasail, it’s pretty nice.
Clearwater Beach wasn’t the only Accordion Bay beach to score well on this year’s TripAdvisor rankings. The beach pictured below came up in the number 4 slot, just ahead of a couple of Hawaiian beaches:
That’s right, St. Pete Beach, where Anitra and I got married last year, made it into the top ten. Here are the top 25 beaches in the U.S., according to TripAdvisor. I’ve boldfaced all the ones in Florida and italicized all the ones to which I can drive in three hours:
And for completeness’ sake, here are TripAdvisor’s top 25 beaches in the world. Clearwater Beach made the cut:
The “I hate being sexy but I place the accordion so I can’t help it” T-shirt is simply the best and most truthful T-shirt ever. It’s yours for US$22.99 at I Love Apparel.
There’s only one person in this photo who actually has money.
Based on a photo I found via David Ellul; I made one with better typography.
Most “Florida Man” stories don’t feature someone with this much ambition: 18-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson of Palm Beach, Florida was arrested for practicing medicine without a license — convincingly enough to somehow hang his shingle in a medical office building and see patients. I assembled the video below from a number of reports filed by the news crew at KTLA 5, a local news show:
His Facebook page doesn’t exist anymore, but here’s a screen capture. As you can see, Love-Robinson went by “Dr. Love” on the page, which would be my runner-up choice if I had to use a fake doctor name. “Dr. Feelgood” is still my first choice:
While Love-Robinson should face the consequences for his actions, I think that simply locking him away would be a waste of some serious potential. It’s a rare 18-year-old who not only has the ambition to become a fake doctor (in both the sense of not having credentials and training, and also because I think naturopathy isn’t backed by any real science) but the skill and wit to somehow secure an office and start a practice. This isn’t a case of some hick sport-humping a manatee or a goofball thinking that throwing an alligator through a drive-through window would be a funny prank, but someone who exemplifies the sort of unorthodox thinking that leads to success that I talked about in my Ignite presentation on Florida Man. What he needs some kind of mentor to take that chutzpah and wherewithal and point them in a more productive direction.