[Rummyfan]

THE LAST THING I wrote before September 11th was a column for the preceding weekend's Sunday Telegraph. It was about shark attacks, which had exercised the Eastern Seaboard's fevered imagination all summer, ever since eight-year old Jessie Arbogast had his arm torn off just off the Florida coast. The boy's uncle wrestled the shark back to the beach, killed him, and retrieved Jessie's severed limb from his mouth.

In an eerie pre-echo of the world to come, progressive opinion came down on the side of the shark....

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Jessie’s uncle is one tough dude, and a great guy to have around in a time of crisis.