Make a Splash With the Rest of the Trash

I just realized Columbus Day is almost here. What an unfortunate coincidence. Right now, the financial markets are dissolving, it’s Yom Kippur, we have a pivotal election coming up, and–call me a religious nut–I think we ought to be on our best behavior. Instead, boatloads of Miamians are going to go out on the water this weekend, strip naked in open view, and have sex in front of crowds of gaping strangers. It’s part of our annual Columbus Day Regatta celebration. People go out in the bay, raft up their boats, and do whatever their animal instincts tell them to do. And most of them could never be made to understand that what they do is wrong and harmful. It would be like trying to explain calculus to a cockroach.

I’ve written about it before. Can you imagine a bigger disgrace? It makes Mardi Gras seem refined.