Monday, May 07, 2007

Poor Bruce

Our town's very own Bruce Weyhrauch has had a very bad week or so.

First of course he fell overboard into the icy waters of Auke Bay and barely survived hypothermia and a very uncomfortable night on Coughlan Island. Our town rejoiced when we learned he had been rescued, cold, wet, hypothermic but essentially OK.

Then, barely a week later we saw his picture plastered beneath a huge headline, being led into the Federal courthouse downtown in handcuffs. He sure did not look like a happy camper in those pictures, and I don't imagine he was. I don't know if Bruce's stars had gotten seriously out of alignment or what, but all in all, it was a pretty bad week for him.

Such is, I suppose, life in the political fast lane. Perhaps Bruce was not fully prepared for that. In the same paper as appeared his latest picture also appeared a cartoon of 'Hagar The Horrible' having a bad day. The connection intersected in my mind. My apologies to cartoonist Dik Browne , but I could not resist making a few changes in his comic strip to fit Bruce's situation:

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