Ship to Shore

The United States Navy should be commended today for freeing the sea captain who was being held by Somali pirates. It is amazing that a nation with a trillion dollar defense budget found herself paralyzed for days by a few thugs from a nation where because of HIV, malaria. starvation, and a lack of government almost no one survives to thirty. How can the world be brought low by a band of illiterate kidnappers who probably have never turned on an electric light? Obama at least, at last, gave the navy the latitude to end the crisis among his desultory pursuits which today even entailed picking a puppy recommended by successful drowner Teddy Kennedy. It's a shame Mary Jo Kopechne didn't have a Portuguese Water Dog with her on her last night on earth-maybe it would have saved her from a watery death. See Kennedy and the pirates have something in common-they have both killed people in the water and both are interested in separating people from what they have earned and what is rightfully theirs.

The Jackson Jive

Jesse Jr., me thinks thou does protest too much. Whatever his involvement or lack thereof in the Blagojevich scandal, don't expect Jesse to be thrown out by his voters. Marion Barry was elected even after his criminal conviction by Washingtonians. Kennedy's little body in the car problem did not disqualify him in the brilliant minds of Massachusetts. Even leaving more than a thousand city and school buses idle as Katrina bore down did not dissuade New Orleans from re-electing Ray Nagin. There is some blind spot among Democratic voters that permits some politicians negligent or criminal behavior and yet, they can still be elected for life.