You might have read over Thanksgiving weekend a piece by friend-of-the-blogger Martha Irvine of The Associated Press, who wrote about the continually recession-proof industry of youth sports, an economic engine that shows no sign of burning out thanks to ever-more parents throwing bigger and bigger piles of money into stove to stoke its fire.
When excitement was hard to come by aboard a nuclear submarine in the early stretches of "Crimson Tide, " he turned a fat fire on a stove in the sub's galley into something just short of a nuclear explosion.