Irish Trojan in Tennessee

Kids say the darndest things!

By David K.

Daddy stabbed mommy in the back!

Ahoy there!

By dcl

Even though it be Talk Like A Pirate Day, remember, there are some things ye just shouldn't say like a pirate.

Here be a handy guide.

Erwin and Larry

By Brendan Loy

Now listen here, lads and lassies, for this be a good article:

The saga of controversial liberal law professor Erwin Chemerinsky's on-again, off-again deanship at the new UC Irvine law school was highly unusual in two ways. First, the pressure to enforce political orthodoxy at Chemerinsky's expense came from the right, not the left, and second, academic freedom and 1st Amendment values won a resounding victory when Chemerinsky was ultimately rehired. ...

The Chemerinsky episode, disturbing though it was, should not distract us from the primary challenge facing academic freedom in American universities: the rise of an academic far-left establishment that seeks to use universities as a base for political activism, and is perfectly willing to violate accepted standards of academic freedom to achieve that goal. Anyone concerned with the future of American higher education has the duty to defend the values of scholarship and open debate against authoritarian political correctness.

Read the whole thing, me hearties. (Tip o' the hat: InstaPundit.)

There be nothin' brewin' in the tropics

By Brendan Loy

[UPDATE, Friday morning: Arrrgh, I should know better than to say "nothin' brewin' in the tropics" before readin' what Dr. Jeff Masters has to say on the topic, m'lads! Yesterday, Dr. Masters believed that the system near Florida was a threat to the Gulf Coast, but today he says the threat is diminishing. Arrr! Well, that be good news, at least. Shiver me timbers!]

Ahoy, maties, it be a good day for piratin', for Calypso has not seen fit to unleash her fury upon the seas, though it be the climatological peak of hurricane season, arr.

Tropical Storm Ingrid -- the storm that that the skipper of this here blog was so eager so see named "Humberto," so that it could terrorize stripeys and waisters alike with the fearsome name "Hurricane Humberto" -- came to naught, as howlin' wind shear tore her right apart and sent her to Davy Jones' Locker on Monday mornin'.  And naught has followed on Ingrid's heels.  It's slim' pickin's in the latest Tropical Weather Outlook:

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARRRRIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

A WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AREA ALONG THE FLORIDA EAST COAST AND AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW NEAR THE FLORIDA PENINSULA BE PRODUCIN' A LARGE AREA OF DISTURBED WEATHER OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC...THE CENTRAL AND NORTHWESTERN BAHAMAS...PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA...AND THE EASTERN GULF MEXICO.  YE LANDLUBBERS IN FLORIDA CAN BE EXPECTIN' SHOWERS...SQUALLS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.  YE CAN ALSO BE EXPECTIN' THE LOW TO MOVE INTO OR REDEVELOP OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO...WHERE A SUBTROPICAL OR TROPICAL CYCLONE COULD FORM.

DISORGANIZED CLOUDINESS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS NORTHEASTWARD FOR NIGH A HUNDRED LEAGUES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF INGRID AND AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH, BUT NEVER FEAR, ME HEARTIES.  UNFAVORABLE UPPER-LEVEL WINDS BE KEEPIN' INGRID CONFINED TO HER WATERY GRAVE.

ELSEWHERE...YE OUGHT NOT TO BE EXPECTIN' ANY TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS. ARRR.

Walk the plank, Al Gore, you scurvy scum! There be no hurricanes to speak of!

But nay, it still be too early yet to be talkin' about a less active hurricane season than what we was expectin'.  There be a good five or six weeks yet for Calypso to send more storms our way, and we'd best be watchful!  Keep a weather eye on the horizon satellite images, and don't be fooled by the calm! She could unleash another Dean or Felix on us, and then we'll be sorry we rejoiced early, aye!!

Now stop reading this blog and get back to work, you mangy bilge rats!

130 degrees? More like 150. Arr.

By Brendan Loy

Aye, it be hot in Iraq, and don't let those bloody MSM scalawags tell y' different! (Tip o' the hat: Cap'n Glenn of the Good Ship InstaPundit.)

Guy declared dead on the scene, lives

By JLR

In Venezuela, a man was in a car wreck and declared dead on the scene.

He woke up in the morgue while they were performing the autopsy.  Hmm, inside the chest cavity we find... HIS STILL-BEATING HEART?!?!

Apparently, the man woke up screaming from the pain on the autopsy table.

And his wife showed up to identify the body.  Hi, Honey!  Yes, that's my husband.

This says two things.

1.  Don't go to the hospital in Venezuela, you might be declared dead.

2.  Someone feels like a moron.

Hoist the Jolly Roger, maties! It's Pirate Day!

By Brendan Loy

Arrr! Avast, me hearties, it be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Shiver me timbers!

Now gather 'round the YouTube, ye lily-livered landlubbers, and listen to Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy explain the difference between pirates and ninjas:

Arr! Ninjas suck! Arr!

Aye, and let it be known, all across the seven seas, that neither today, nor this Saturday, nor any other day this fall, will the Pirates of Troy be surrendering the Booty! Arrr! Beat the Cougarrrrrrrs!

Also, Go Irrrrrish, Beat Sparrrrrrtans!! Make a block, ye mangy O-Line bilge rats, or walk the plank! It'll be Davy Jones' Locker for Charrrrrlie if we don't win soon, and that be no lie!

So, in conclusion: Arrrrr!

P.S. Guestbloggers are encouraged to use as much pirate-speak as possible in anything they post today. :)