The real world

I didn’t know that even one great white shark had been successfully held in captivity, but the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently unveiled its second white shark. My sea-monster-loving hormones just went into overdrive.

Meanwhile, in far bleaker real-world news, the mother of Johnny Gosch, a little boy who was disappeared while on his paper route 24 years ago, says she’s received a picture of the boy bound and gagged. But potentially even more disturbing are the reasons for skepticism about this development professed by astute and tireless crimeblogger Steve Huff.