I dunno if the title is rhetorical or tongue-in-cheek or serious, but I can assure you that I, for one, have no desire to laugh at the absurdity in Florida. It's a very clear, measurable decay of society back towards Jim Crowe-style oppression targeting the "T" of LGBT, right now, but I can assure you that they'll work their way backward from there. It's many more states than just Florida now, too. Truly disgusting regressivism.

Can't speak to UCF, but I spent a few years at Texas A&M, and I've no doubt that even as far back as 15 years ago, the cultures are similar.

DeSantis won't win the primary. There have been some obvious gaffes lately, along with the fact that he hasn't announced. I'm starting to think he won't, and he'll save his candidacy for 2028. He really is a very, very strange man.

Yeah sorry, most of this was in a draft format and then katakowsj commented and bumped it back up on my radar. I've gotta lotta unpublished drafts.

Hang in there, Florida man. I'm afraid you're condemned to another couple DeSantis governorships, but at least the cancer isn't spreading outside of the state.? Trump probably won't beat Biden, either, unless McCarthy forces a debt default and successfully pins it on Biden, which isn't completely impossible. What a world.