7 Tishri 5768: Ten Days of Repentance/International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Greetings.

Worthy cause of the day: “Tell EPA to Start Cutting Global Warming Pollution from Passenger Vehicles!”.

Relevant to today’s quasi-holiday: the Wikipedia article “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” and every pirate’s favorite statistical programming language, R.

Today’s news and commentary, some of which Barry is responsible for:

• “Uh Oh, it's O.J.!”
  
• “Syria voted co-chairman of the IAEA” (Yet again, the United Nations puts the fox in charge of the henhouse.)
  
• “Atonement 'Monopoly'”
  
• “Reviewers Reject "The Israel Lobby"”
  
• “'Intimacy, Fantasies and Sexuality'”
  
• “Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis”
  
• “Researchers say many languages are dying”
  
• “Caught on Film: Lefties Were Rare in 19th-Century England”

I could not find a weird thing suitable for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so today’s weird thing is something suitable for International Talk Like a Pilot Day (if there were such a thing): Holding Pattern Coach Class. Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron