Some things I’ll never get, and I’m more or less reconciled to the reality. Off the top: Tea Partiers. Rap music. Sarah Palin. The Inca Apocalypse. Backwards baseball caps, especially when it’s sunny. The NRA. Virtual schools. Sushi. Hunting for “sport.” Ubiquitous cell phoneys. The NBA. Real-world libertarians. Muddled East “martyrs.” Un-short shorts. North Korea. All things Kardashian.
Now add this: air races. I was reminded with a recent headline: “Air Race Safety Scrutinized.” Makes sense, to be sure, for the National Transportation Safety Board to be holding hearings into their safety–in the wake of last September’s accident that killed 11 and seriously injured 70 in Reno, Nev.
Then I thought: “Scrutinized”? Shouldn’t that headline have been: “Air Races Canceled Forever”?
Demolition derbies never seemed so quaintly pedestrian.