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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 68. Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 55.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Commissioners are expected to approve a $3 million land purchase under the environmentally sensitive land program. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.
The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach. See meeting announcements here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Babylonian Craptivity, day 43: So this is what we have become. A nation where the catastrophic is normalized into a daily tally, the way it was during World War II, the way it was in the days and weeks after 9/11, except that this is self-inflicted. The catastrophe is the presidency, if unenlightened despotism can be called a presidency at all. The New York Times, without irony, and probably with too much of a nod toward FDR’s 100 days (the two are incomparable), is running every Sunday “The Week in Trump” you see above, while keeping a tally of the disintegration of the country at this page. But no one can keep up. Not even the Times. Certainly not Trump or his junta. As clusterfucks go, the word has never had as good an illustration for the Oxford English Dictionary, which does carry the word, with two definitions, the first of which I was entirely foreign to: “1. A sexual orgy. Also Mongolian cluster fuck. 2. Originally Military. A bungled or botched undertaking.” The word was apparently first used in the mid-1960s. “These are the screwups that the American public rarely hears about. They happen often enough over here that we have a term for them—‘cluster-fuck’!,” B. E. Holley, a serviceman, is quoted as having written in a 1969 letter home in Battalion Surgeon’s Journal (1993). But that can;t compare with “Proposed that the U.S. take over Gaza,” “Said Canada should become part of the U.S.,” “Said U.S.A.I.D. was run by ‘radical lunatics,’” and so on.
—P.T.
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January 2025
Monday, Jan 13 – Monday, Oct 13
Flagler County Commission Workshop
Government Services Building
February 2025
Wednesday, Feb 26 – Wednesday, Mar 26
Flagler Woman’s Club Forum for Flagler Beach City Commission Candidates
Flagler Woman’s Club House
Friday, Feb 28 – Friday, Mar 28
St Thomas Episcopal Rummage Sale
March 2025
Monday, Mar 03
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Government Services Building
Monday, Mar 03
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Monday, Mar 03
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Tuesday, Mar 04
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Mar 04
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Tuesday, Mar 04
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Mar 04
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Mar 04
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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“To be eaten up with ambition, to abuse despotic power, to do harm, that is the real disgrace.” (Etre rongé d’ambition, abuser du pouvoir despotique, faire du mal, voylà la vraye disgrâce.)
–From a Voltaire letter of March 16, 1737.
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