It's good to be back home in weird and dangerous Florida

News and views for Floridians and other Americans who only wish they lived here

Here in Florida, we take a perverse pride in being weird and dangerous.

We have hurricanes and pythons. Sinkholes and alligators. We have Florida Man and Florida Woman, weirdos drawn to the state because it is so easy for them to fit in.

And we have lightning. Lots of lightning.

Mostly that’s because we are a peninsula jutting between the Gulf of Mexico an…