Superior State of Mind: a watered-down version of the tipping point. 

Cleansing action… but still strikes me as weird that they want to beg, borrow, or otherwise our water. Given that the whole country is already drowning, up to its eyeballs in debt…symbolic of the amount of freshwater Lake Superior would, if it was somehow released, as in Bingo! do a coverall of the entire (contiguous) United States. The problem, with dipping your toe...into such cold water, is that eventually one can get numb to the rising debt. The captain of the tour boat also pointed out people who were enjoying the (sand) bar, while standing perilously close to the drop off -- if that doesn't get your attention, America, there were the few who were standing on slippery outcroppings on Lover's Leap who..."could, if they're not careful, easily end up...a marriage on the rocks!" To reach the states of Alaska and Hawaii, it would, of course, require the bailing action of Mr. Musk (not that he's already busy enough, searching for water in lands farther off). The parallels, as in latitude, were too compelling not to share, on our last stop on this trip to the very tip, of the mitt. 

(btw last time I checked the Straits...of Mackinac, remain open)

Same theme, different meme: Coming up next, a shout out to “You tubers!” and rip tidings of joy…