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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 30, 2026
A rainy, thunderStormy Daniels kind of day, DeSantis launders, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, George Templeton Strong's Civil War diaries ("the intolerable brag and bluster and indecent arrogance of the South"), a Mozart flute concerto.

How California’s Leadership On Vehicle Emissions Standards Created Cleaner Air For Everyone
California’s aggressive pursuit of vehicle emissions standards since the 1970s revolutionized air quality across the United States. By forcing the adoption of catalytic converters, the state effectively removed lead and billions of tons of pollution from the atmosphere. These…

Lake Ontario? Lake America? Seriously?
President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America during a trade war with Canada. The United States maintains a strict formal process for changing geographic designations. The federal geographic board manages these mapping…

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 28, 2026
Trump's Lake Ontario idiocy, the Friday Blue Forum, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Free For All Fridays discusses taxes.

The Mounting Problems with US Military Readiness
The question is not whether we should ask hard things of people who volunteered for hard things. It is whether what the Department of Defense asked them to do was necessary and worth the military readiness – the ability to complete missions and respond to threats – it has…

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, August 27, 2026
The Flagler Beach City Commission evaluates Manager Dale Martin, drug court, the meaning of Dolly Parton in an era of bile, Parton's Playboy Interview in 1978, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond.

The Great Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton built a legendary career by embracing the contradiction between her artificial appearance and authentic artistry and died at 80, leaving a lasting legacy across multiple generations. She cleverly used her glamorous styling and quick wit to subvert expectations and…

The Collapse of American Human Rights Practices
The U.S. lags behind most other high-income democracies in human rights practices. The U.S.’s poor performance spans civil and political rights, such as the right to be free from torture and the right to political participation, as well as economic and social rights, including…

Henry David Thoreau, Scientist
A nearly invisible Thoreau – the compulsively quantitative and analytically rigorous physical scientist – emerged from research as a geologist interested in the history of 19th-century science. This less well-known Thoreau is featured in Robert M. Thorson's “The Walden…