Before Katrina hit and made me want to throw up 24/7, I had a few posts stock-piled to keep the blog moving if I was occupied with other things. Um, so here’s one now:

The NYT runs the second article in a week about pirate books. This one is a little longer than Hitchens’ article, and it tries to explain the whole pirate thing. In an unrelated note (?) - National Talk Like A Pirate Day is on September 19. And they have a book apparently.