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Sailor far from the sea

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Sailor far from the sea

All of us who have been reading the Seablogger’s remarkably candid journal of his struggle to say farewell to his alcoholic and ill partner have learned more than we knew about dealing with sorrow. The proprietress of Just Muttering has a good summary of the story taking place in Fargo, a place I admit I pretty much thought of only as a movie before this. My mother’s sister was an alcoholic whose behavior sometimes replicated what the Seablogger is going through. Unlike his partner, my aunt eventually killed herself. I didn’t know what to think about that at the time, but now I think maybe she did us all a favor.

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A northwest passage to the sea

Posted on September 15, 2007 | Comments Off on A northwest passage to the sea

Ice melting in the Arctic has created a long-sought fabled sea route from Europe to Asia across the top of the world. The usual suspects, of course, are blaming global warming. It could be, but I rather doubt it. The record is simply too young to know for certain if this hasn’t happened before. Hopefully, the Seablogger will enlighten us on the subject, once he gets his pitiable personal work completed.

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The perils of beauty contests

Posted on September 6, 2007 | Comments Off on The perils of beauty contests

Pity Miss Teen South Carolina, the national laughing stock, because she got nervous. Don’t we all? I’m sure the ugly ducklings are having the most fun laughing at her. They finally get to feel superior to someone who was born pretty instead of plain, or worse. The Seablogger has it just right, especially the poor gal’s PC indoctrination, which certainly can get confusing if you’re not a paid member of the race industry.

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Felix: Not quite a pussycat

Posted on September 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Felix: Not quite a pussycat

But no longer the ferocious Lion it seemed to be just a few hours ago. The Seablogger explains why.

UPDATE: Felix returned to Lion status overnight, but remained compact, and went ashore this (Tuesday) morning in a sparsely populated area of Central America where mountains are expected to tear it apart. More from the Seablogger, who I would thank directly for his good work but leaving comments on his blog doesn’t work for me anymore, so I’ll do it here. Thanks, Alan. 

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Felix less of a threat to Texas

Posted on September 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Felix less of a threat to Texas

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 Subsequent model runs show threat to Texas diminishing. Whew.

Via Seablogger 

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Fakin’ Felix

Posted on September 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Fakin’ Felix

The Seablogger is still talking about a chance that Felix, now a TS and probably a H by nightfall, could get into the Gulf at full strength, by just clipping the northeast corner of the Yucatan. Hurricane center still has it going to Yucatan/Belize/Honduras area like Dean did. But if Alan is right, then where? Texas may be evacuating parts of its coastline yet. Definitely a storm to watch.

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The kingdom of the blind

Posted on August 27, 2007 | Comments Off on The kingdom of the blind

I was ambivalent about President Bush’s recent invocation of the Vietnam post-war catastrophe (re-education camps, thousands escaping in rickety boats, piles of corpses in next-door Cambodia) as the definitive example of what could happen if we similarly slam the door on Iraq as the Dems want to do. But the Seablogger, linking to a recalcitrant Christopher Hitchens and a matter-of-fact Mark Steyn, reminds me that the Dems feel free to flee because they have never admitted to any connection between their anti-Vietnam war effort and the horrors that followed. They would just turn their other blind eye to Iraq.

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