In the mid-2000s, Ralph Nader, protector of consumers everywhere and elector of Bushes in Florida, tried to cut in front of me in line at the taxi stand at DCA. It was one of those situations where the line was poorly formed and so there was some ambiguity, but I know for a fact that I was already standing there when…

These events are in the Guanabara Bay, not Copacabana.