Florida officials are investigating an unemployment agency that spent public money to give 6,000 superhero capes to the jobless.
Workforce Central Florida spent more than $14,000 on the red capes as part of its "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" public relations campaign. The campaign featured a cartoon character, "Dr. Evil Unemployment," who needs to be vanquished.
Why can't we all have superhero capes? The cost would only be about $725 billion, a small price to pay for the giant boost in collective self-esteem that would result. And wouldn't it be nifty and neat if we each got to choose which dastardly supervillain to vanquish? I will myself take on Ev
