If something in fact does happen on that submarine where those billionaires are, the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV isn't so sure he's going to shed a tear. He reminds us that those people knew full well what they were getting into when they signed their lives away on that one piece of paper going in, so he objects to *his tax dollars* going toward a mount of a heroic rescue of some sort. He's also calling on the entire press corps to turn in their Fourth Estate Moniker in what he sees as biased reporting on apparently how 'important' these guys are. What he asks is, what about the four people who are *already dead* when that e-bike repair shop they were living over burst into flames? He also asks us to remember what was written, that a rich man has less of chance to get into Heaven than a camel does to walk through an eye of a needle. The four people who died because of the bike fire TSV counts amoung those who've actually *served* their communities and devoted love to their families. These are people like firefighters, EMTs, nurses, custodians, landscapers, and food and store clerks. These are people who on their days off devoted their time to their families for whom they're working hard for the rest of the week to make sure everyone has a roof over their head and food in their mouth. TSV contrasts these to those sheltered, spoiled and obnoxious poor little rich types who get the press to cover concepts such as The Power Of Positive Thinking. He tells us not to be too surprised to see special coverage on visual about how "you can visit the Mona Lisa, you can launch into outer space, you can even take a submarine to visit the ruins of the Titanic, if, and only if, you have The Power Of Positive Thinking." So any time TSV hears the phrase The Power Of Positive Thinking, he's brought back to when he was made to lose his job eight years ago during a 'great economy.' And just by chance those billionaires do get saved, TSV reminds us all that for every one billionaire that's saved from that sub, it's 100 of the whole lot of us who will inevitably die in tragic circumstances. The rest of us don't have the monetary power or fancy connections to get 24 hour coverage of 'will the nurse mom of three make it.'

So it certainly hasn't been uneventful, what with the new charges against Trump and smoke from the Canadian forest fires, etc. But the one thing that the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV was listening for, particularly this past Tuesday, was hearing on audio about The Tenth Anniversary Of Ed Snowden. They even did a Today In History that day and talked about things like the D-Day landings and a jewelry heist or something back in 2015. No even a peep about Ed Snowden. It seems poignant to TSV that history seems to see the jewelry heist as more of a thing than Ed Snowden, maybe more like Ed Has-Been. But this was -not- what you were hearing 10 years ago. Everything was Ed Snowden, the "Relevations Of Ed Snowden," etc. TSV doesn't remember the 10th Anniversary of the Pentagon Papers as -not- mentioning Daniel Ellsberg, though admittedly he doesn't remember them mentioning Ellsberg in 1981 or so, since that was just a little before TSV's time before he followed current events a little more. He's pretty sure they'd talk about the 10th Anniversary of the Pentagon Papers the same way they talk about an anniversary of 9/11. So all reporters on audio who -never- talked about Ed Snowden every June 6, TSV wonders, were they really onto something? Did they know why Ed Snowden wasn't really a thing since whatever was the first year they decided not to talk about him? If so, TSV would very much like to know, because he can't assume he can just "move on" from Ed Snowden if in fact "everyone else" has if there's that one year in the future when you see Snowdenmania come alive all over again. Ed Snowden didn't just leak the surveillance program. He also stole other classified documents, but it appears as though the same can't be said about Daniel Ellsberg. As far as TSV knows, Daniel Ellsberg -only- leaked the Pentagon Papers, and nothing else of confidentiality, so maybe that's an incident of ethical restraint, and maybe that's why history's been kinder to Ellsberg than to Ed Snowden. It indicates to TSV that the press understands the need for classified confidentiality except in cases of reasonable questions about ethics. The press was more prepared to do the Pentagon Papers than to ever reveal anything about, for example, American spies in the then Soviet Union or Vietnam. So on an ethical scale from most to least, the TSV sees them going in the order of Daniel Ellsberg (ethical), Ed Snowden (semi-ethical), Scooter Libby (unethical). TSV will have to think about the above over time before he's got further thoughts to get me the Mentor to talk about.