Thursday, September 9, 2010

Just another week in Paradise

Here we go again. Another week in which some of the most bizarre, unfortunate and truly ridiculous national news is generated by goings on in the Sunshine State.

Last week, coverage of Hurricane Earl as it passed by the Florida coastline was overshadowed in the media by the unprecedented number of shark bites recorded along Florida's east coast. Dozens of shark bites were reported from Miami to St. Augustine, which of course sent off a media frenzy that would make a feeding frenzy look mild. Don't know what the big deal was, no one actually got eaten for god's sake.

Then we've got the Florida "Mystery Monkey" whose antics have gone viral and stormed into national media headlines.

Now there's the Gainesville-based "pastor" who's making headlines over a book burning he's promoting. When I first heard about this ego maniacal "man of god" I thought to myself, "Please don't let him live in Florida! Anyplace, but Florida!" As we watched the TV news, Beloved just looked at me and smiled and said "It's your state, honey!"

"No wonder people outside Florida thinks the state is filled with crazy, stupid people and overrun by animals gone wild" I replied. "When the truth is Florida's only half full of people like that. The rest of us are just living peacefully and trying to catch our monkeys."

2 comments:

The Florida Blogger said...

I'm wondering the Gulf oil spill was caused by sharks. Hear me out. Oil spill happens. Tourism rates go up on the East Coast (documented). Sharks get and AYCE human buffet. Just a thought:)

Sayre said...

I sincerely hope that the rest of the world realizes that this "pastor" is one whack-job and not representative of the United States as a whole.

The sharks have moved in closer to the coast because their food has done so. The oil spill pushed a lot of sealife in in search of their own food. More sharks, more hunger, more bites. That works in the Gulf anyway. I can't say about the east coast...