Collide-a-scape

Per that new “miscellaneous” item attached to the recent credit card bill, Carl Hiaasen is painfully hilarious:

Like many other Americans, every time I take my family to a national park I find myself thinking: Wow! If I only had a gun . . .

The whole column is a must-read.

This observation on human behavior by a park ranger is something to think about next year at Yosemite or Yellowstone, when guns in national parks potentially become as ubiquitous as water bottles:

People don’t leave their problems at home when they go to recreate.