Shark Attack Summer

So tomorrow its off to Dutch Springs. I’ll be accompanying Ryan and his AOW students while they do a wreck and a neutral buoyancy dive. I’m not so thrilled about yet another dive at Dutch Springs but it will be better than sitting at home watching the grass grow. Going out there is actually a very nice way to spend a Saturday. The early wake-up, the drive through New Jersey on traffic free Route 78, stopping at the bagel and sandwich stores, then laying around the Pennsylvania countryside talking about diving in-between dives. Still, the Atlantic beckons. I have to get in a bunch of dives this fall since next year may be a tad hectic with little Wexford arriving in February. How soon before they start diving? Can I log a baptism as a first dive? Many questions need to be answered in this area.

In other news, war is raging over seas, terrorists are plotting the end of the human race, global warming is cooking the planet like a Pillsbury biscuit, yet the top news story this morning…Jon Benet Ramsey. Yes, just in time for the fall elections, a break in the ten year old child murder case threatens to distract an unfortunate number of already disinterested voters in swing states from paying attention to what is going on in the world outside of their television sets. Fifty-thousand dead Iraqi children barely merit a yawn from the overfed masses, but one dead white six year old beauty queen pushes the war right off the front page. I’m sure that lunatic they picked up in Thailand had something to do with it, after all he confessed! Why is the press so fucking stupid? Even the New York Times had the damn story above the fold this morning. Doesn’t anyone realize what is going on here? How easily Americans are distracted. We can’t handle negativity. The minute something inane and meaningless, yet titillating and perverse comes along, down the rabbit hole we go. Doesn’t anyone remember ‘shark-attack summer’ that enraptured America in the months prior to 911. I don’t give a shit who murdered Jon Benet Ramsey. There. I said it.