During a Royal Black Institution parade last month, loyalist bands played music outside St Patrick's Church in defiance of a ruling by the Parades Commission.
Cariocas will happily travel to and from the beach and parade down the wavy, black-and-white-mosaic boardwalk in just their beachwear and Havaiana flip flops.
The upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas offers an annual parade of security researchers revealing new ways to break various elements of the Internet.
Basically the black clouds are just blocking out all the sunshine and raining on the parade, if you will, because the earnings themselves have really demonstrated, I think, far more than what people anticipated.