Peter Benchley died yesterday.
He’s most famous for writing the book Jaws. After that he spent a lot of time trying to educate people about sharks.
It was a pretty good book and Spielberg did a great job on the movie. My favorite line was, “I think we need a bigger boat”.
The thing that made me go humm was the story I read not long after reading about his death. It seems that in Australia they had to close several resort beaches due to a feeding frenzy by about 100 sharks close to shore. Maybe they were in morning and eating comfort food. Sorry.

I read a headline a short time ago suggesting that Dick Cheney was considering a run for president in 2008. I didn’t read the story as I had read about all the political stories I could take.
I’m starting to wonder though. He may be starting to position himself with the voters. I can’t think of many ways to get in good with the working class voter than by shooting a lawyer. So who knows? All he has to do is stay out of jail and do some more hunting.

In other shark news I see that Google stock is down about 24% and Bloomburg says it might drop another 50%. They might have second thoughts about denying the government access to private information about searches. I’m no Wall Street genius but I have noticed that when the financial powerhouses tell people a stock will go down it usually will. Lots of Republican contributors on Wall Street.

Oh, something that I didn’t know about Peter Benchley. He was a reporter and worked as a speech writer for Lyndon Johnson and wrote a lot of his Vietnam speeches.
If anyone questions his knowledge of sharks that should prove he was an expert.