On the subject of the Grand Canyon Skywalk.

I sit and marvel at the stupidity of people so often, that, if it was ever to become a sport, I would be in the hall of fame the first year. Ironic, because I find hall of fames to be one of those stupid things made by stupid people that I marvel at. Tourist attractions, wow, those always get me too. I am from a town called Hibbing, Minnesota and Hibbing has a tourist attraction. They call it the Hull Rust Mine, it is supposedly the worlds largest open pit mine, I will not argue its contention for such a title, being that I will not waste my day researching world wide open pit mine volumes. If you ever see a picture of the Hull Rust, or are unlucky enough to see it in person, you will undoubtedly say, 'wow, that is a big hole'. A sad fact, however, is that through out my childhood I met people who had come from all over the country to espy yon massive crevasse, this is something that I just could not grok, (read,'Stranger in a strange land', for the gist of this word and then use it in sentences, I like it). I have traveled this country pretty thouroughly and seen many of our nations tourist attractions. Mount Rushmore, pretty weak actually, kind of a waste of time and explosives to put up the likeness of four ex-presidents, I believe it would have been a bigger draw if they would have carved a hot chick with massive milk jugs in the cliff, that would be something to look at and think about the climax of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, North by Northwest, awesome. You have the Gateway Arch, which I believe is a half of a global marketing scheme set about by the McDonalds corporation, it is also a very stupid and I have been known to throw rocks at it if I am nearby. There is the Space Needle in Seattle, San Fran has the Golden Gate bridge, Los Angeles has many plastic tits, all tourist attractions, all man made. I may gaze upon these various structures if I happen to be passing but I would never go down the street just to see them and no way would I pay to get close to any of them, exempting, of course, the boobies, I am, after all, not a monster. Do I feel like this makes me better than the average tourist? Yes, it does but only because I am. I do enjoy natural tourist traps, however. The Salt Flats, the Boundary Waters, Red Rocks, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Yellowstone, those are enjoyable because they are real, not man made. Now the Grand Canyon, of which I have barely seen any, is about to be set on the border between natural and stupid. The Hualapai, indian reservation has just finished having the Grand Canyon Skywalk built. For a meager twenty five, or possibly seventy five dolars, there has been conflicting price reports, you can walk out on a glass bottomed, horseshoe shaped walkway and stand above four thousand feet of void. Now that is stupid. How the hell can there be a market for this kind of thing? And twenty-five bucks? Free would be over charging. The saddest fact of all is that they expect to have the thirty million they borrowed to make this thing, paid back to the lender in under four years. I realize that there are alot of stupid people out there, with a lot of expendable wompum but to be able to pay back the cash that fast is terrifying. Then you have the fact that land prices between Las Vegas and the skywalk are going up and developers are snatching up real estate as fast as they can, for hotels and what have you. I have heard that the tribe who owns the skywalk is poor and in deep need of more money, so why not do the natural thing and, I don't know, open a casino mabye. I know it is a novel idea, to put a casino on a reservation but mabye it would work out. Just think about it, if it went well, I suppose you could have casinos in every reservation in America some day. The skywalk thing, is another sad thing about our country, that makes me wonder even further about the nation wide numbskullery we suffer from and the only way I could ever support this venture, would be, if say every once and a while a piece of glass gives way and there is a mass plummet. That would be worth twenty-five bucks.