Monday, November 07, 2005

If We Stop Cruising, The Pirates Will Have Won

I love it that the pirates are smiling behind their ski masks. I'm not saying it didn't happen that way; but man, that's great cinematic stuff.

Passengers described their horror as pirates in speedboats chased their luxury cruise liner at sea, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles--with smiles visible on faces otherwise hidden by ski masks.

"I was scared, I was very scared," Jean Noll of Florida. But her husband said the experience was not likely to deter them from enjoying another cruise. "We cruise all the time," Clyde Noll said.

Don't you get our message, sea-terrorists? Cruising is a way of life for Americans, now, and we refuse to imagine living any other way. We shall continue to cruise. We cruise all the time.

It's tempting to read the whole cruise-ship-under-attack thing allegorically. But it has now been pointed out to me twice that I write like an English professor. I don't want it to get any worse.

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