February 19, 2003

• Blood In the Water

  
  The sharks are preparing to feed. Those belonging to the city of Chicago claim the club had been ordered closed. They have to make such a claim, whether or not such an order was issued and not countermanded, to keep the sharks belonging to the victims from eating them alive. But the sharks belonging to the club have been claiming an exemption, claiming that they were given permission to open the club, had even asked the city to provide additional protection. Well, they have to say that; otherwise, all of the other sharks will eat them alive.
  
  And the other sharks? Oh, damage has been done -- but not to the sharks. The sharks are opportunists. They see a chance to feed well. They sense blood in the water, no matter how thin the trace might be. They hope to feed -- and feed well -- perhaps letting some small scraps fall to the victims and their families, to justify the whole thing.
  
  It really has little to do with the victims after all. They just provide the first blood.

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