This is not what I wanted to get in to here, but it's a good place to start, because New Jersey has jumped the shark in terms of overburdening their citizens and just taxing the living fuck out of everybody. In ritzy, pinkys-up towns like Upper Montclair, Princeton and a few others, they have actually banned the use of leaf blowers. Banned it because they don't like the sounds they make - the noise you may have to tolerate for all of five minutes while they clean up after doing your neighbor's lawn.
I had a light-bulb-over-the-head moment yesterday. I came to realize what's so fucked up with modern day Government. I think originally, governments were set up to determine what you can do, and these days they spend all of their time telling us what we cannot do. They've flipped the equation on us.
Look at NYC, Seattle, Chicago and any number of other places where the people they've put in power shouldn't even be allowed to run a leaf blower, let alone a City or a State. Okay - bad metaphor, but you get my point...
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Starting January 1, 2027, any Florida resident who is not a U.S. citizen and applies for or renews a driver’s license will have the letters NC - Not a Citizen - printed directly on the card.
Green card holders, work visa holders, every legal non-immigrant resident: all marked NC. Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act on April 1, 2026.
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A crowd of the usual suspects descended on picturesque Horny Corner beach in the tony Belmont Shore section of Long Beach at dusk Thursday, sparking a wild brawl that led to several teens being detained. The chaos unfolded as the sun began to set on the first night of summer break for students enrolled at many schools in the area, including nearby Woodrow Wilson High, which enrolls more than 3,300.
Wild video captured at the scene shows throngs of teens clogging streets and the sand at two busy Southern California beaches, that of Horny Corner and nearby Rosie’s Dog Beach.
Teen girls in bikini tops threw punches at each other in the frenzy that ensued, prompting a number of local residents to call the police. As of 9:45 p.m., some juveniles remained in the area, according to police. Officers gave numerous announcements regarding curfew enforcement, but the teens refused to leave. Five were cited for violating the city’s curfew and taken to their families.
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Part head shop/record store/clothes store, the sold all manner of gettin' high tools, had a reasonable record inventory, and a ticketron setup for getting area concert tickets. Upstairs was a kinda unisex clothing boutique and shoe store all in one. I bought my first pair of FRYE boots there for $ 30.00 - a lot of money in 1970. The whole place smelled like incense and patchoulli oil. I can still smell it in my dreams...
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It's so bad it's good, if ya get my drift...
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The baseball cartoon reminded me of the Tug McGraw quote : "Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the earth is just a frozen snowball hurling through space, nobody’s going to care whether or not I got this guy out."
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