(Community Matters)
Happy Birthday, Kirk
in Chicago night of 2008 election
I consider Kirk one of my best friends . . . but he once wrote me this note: “I just saw a report that they’ve closed all the beaches around Cape Cod because of sightings of several Great White sharks. I think it’s a government scare tactic. Would you mind going to take a dip in order to determine the truthfulness of the story?” sent from my iPad – just saying
Community Matters 
In my defense, you were in Cape Cod at the time the shark warning was issued. It didn’t strike me as a particularly burdensome or inconvenient request.