"People need diversion," said Jon Agnar Olason, the festival's chief spokesman.
In a city with a wheezing automotive industry and a jobless rate near 30percentt, people need diversions.
"Who needs diversion when action is required?
Everyone needs diversion and guidance, and it's surely not the end of the world if most people choose the same somewhat dubious source for both.
This is because the Republican primary campaign has been an extremely long and depressing slog, and we need all the diversion we can get.
This is a particularly good thing because, with two of the four major American professional sports not operating at the moment, we need all the diversion we can get.
We needed the diversions of sports more than ever in 2015, what with controversial police shootings dividing our communities and the scourge known as ISIS threatening our ideals.
At this point in the narrative, we need to take another diversion and see what relationship Dr. Beach had with mastodons.
As Sheriff John Urquhart of Washington's King County said, "cash-only businesses are very difficult to audit, leading to possible tax evasion, wage theft and the diversion of resources we need to protect public safety".
You might protest that this is a lot of sport for a small country, but in Andorra I needed diversions.
