The Kennedy Plunge: Our Nation's Top Health Official Takes a Shit Bath

Hey Bobby call Erin Brockovich - she can bring you to speed.

Nothing says "I care about public health" quite like dunking your grandchildren in a toilet. But that's essentially what our Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did this Mother's Day when he decided that the laws of science, public safety warnings, and basic common sense simply didn't apply.

There he was, our nation's top health official, splashing about like a gleeful toddler in Washington's Rock Creek—a waterway so polluted it makes the 3 Mile Island look like a Club Med. The 71-year-old Kennedy scion posted the evidence himself, as if swimming in what is essentially an open sewer with his grandchildren was some kind of heartwarming Norman Rockwell moment rather than a masterclass in reckless endangerment.

"Mother's Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park," he announced on social media, proudly documenting his family's frolic in fecal waters. Nothing says maternal celebration like exposing the little ones to E. coli, coliform and other microscopic horrors swirling in DC'…