It's been a shitty week...

One every 98 minutes is seriously fucked up, something you should know if you plan to cruise Guatemala, and Donkey Mountain makes a good point/prediction...

It's the first day of summer and in France the streets are alive with the sound of music during the Fête de la Musique and I'm well and I'm more than a little depressed.

It's been a horrible week. The sort of week you really just wish you had not read the news at all, topped off by a senseless racist massacre in a church in South Carolina.

Made even worse, if that is even possible, by listening to a clown car of spineless, self-serving politicians running for president and FAUX news say that it wasn't about racism, that there was really no racism in the US of A anymore, and that all things considered it was really the fault of any number of things but certainly had nothing to do with racism or guns.

Yeah right...

Of course, as some folks will no doubt write in and tell me...

 "But that doesn't have anything to do with boats or cruising, it's depressing, so you shouldn't write about this sort of thing"

... Here's the thing, it really does have something to do with boats and cruising because I've been at cruiser get-togethers and had to listen to stupid racist jokes and generally stupid comments of a racial nature far more often than you'd expect in a community that prides itself on being non-racist, open-minded, and welcoming to all...

The sad fact is that overt racism has become so prevalent these days that it's considered normal and when confronted with it instead of doing something about it far too many just pretend it doesn't exist...

But it does and we should all be doing something about it.

Listening to Fortunate Youth

So it goes...