JET & SHARK
Something hilarious, something serious:
In the hilarity department, if you have yet to see this clip yet, this is just another reason as to why TNT's NBA studio is the best studio show around. Last night, with Kobe Bryant watching live, they aired the premiere of the Kenny Smith Hyperdunk shoe ad.
On to a matter that is disturbing many surfers and swimmer in southern California today. This morning in Solana Beach, which is about 15 miles or so north of San Diego, a 66 year-old man was fatally attacked by a shark. The man was training with a group of triathletes at about 7:20 a.m. when the shark attacked. He was pronounced dead on the scene once they got him to shore.
The bizarre part of this story is that shark attacks in southern California are extremely rare. Extremely. In northern California they are more common and of course in Florida they're more likely to occur. But there were people on message boards today stating that they'd lived in the area for decades and had never heard of a fatal shark attack near San Diego.
Of course, the Coast Guard will hunt it down and kill it, because that's what law enforcement does to carnivores that behave like carnivores. Nobody wants to see a person die at the hands of a shark, of course, but isn't there an ugly disconnect when a society can hunt down a shark that is just trying to survive within the same week that Mike Golic will participate in an on-air competitive eating contest for entertainment value? Humans: They really do not deserve to be atop the food chain.
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I have this theory where humans would be a lot more humble if we were like third on the food chain. We need something -- that we can't just shoot -- that randomly devours people every once in a while. "Where's Bob from accounting?" "Oh, carnosaur got him Sunday as he was getting the morning paper."
The Kenny Smith clip was outstanding. Barkley-on-Leno funny, and I really don't put "Leno" and "funny" in the same sentence -- no, paragraph -- that often. Sorry if that triggers the NBC censors ...
I was scaling the cliffs near Black Beach yesterday morning (for the aerobic benefit, not the nude sunbathing, mind you) when the search helicopters starting circling. I initially thought they were there for my imminent cardiac arrest, but I found out later they were searching for the great white shark. A poignant warning that one should never dangle their participles or appendages while deep at sea.