SUMMER MADNESS

America, not to be out done by the Europeans, specifically, by the people of Spain and their annual La Tomatina, a food fight festival held for decades on the last Wednesday in August, during which tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown by people in the streets at each other for exactly one hour, that great American city, Reno, Nevada, has begun La Tomatina in Reno, an annual festival where America is given the opportunity to demonstrate that American young people know how to tomato fight too. This past Sunday, Reno hosted the second annual tomato fight, with about 2,500 people showing that American young people knows what to do with a 150,000-pound pile of Roma tomatoes. Yes, these tomatoes become missiles that young Americans began to launch at each other -- so reported the Associated Press. See the video.

Yes, it look like madness. It is summer madness, and is something to do with a tomato besides putting it on a sandwich or in a salad.