Small things first.

This column is a tad a-kilter due to my inability to get online at deadline time, midday Tuesday. Comcast’s fiber optic cable to LBI was gnawed clean through by either Godzilla or Big Foot, depending on which of those two technical explanations you got from the Comcast front office – along with the message that you’re probably overdue on your bill. They just routinely use that bill thing to shorten conversations. Works for me. “Uh, I gotta go. I think I hear someone in my attic.