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...would he think the Florida Supremes deserved to sail into that safe harbor? The state's high court had tried not once but twice to design a recount scheme that held up to equal protection provisions. Seven Justices said Saturday's count was a failure on those constitutional grounds. A third try might pass muster, it might not, but the way the Florida court had chewed up the past 35 days was certainly no reason to believe that Dec. 18 was any safer. And beyond that date lay constitutional madness not seen since, well...
...that we are getting all the nastiness out of our systems BEFORE the inauguration (whoever the inauguree may be) and that once one of these clowns is anointed prince, we will (precisely because of the ordeal of denigration he has endured) embrace him, and, all hatred spent, sail serenely and bipartisanly through the next four years? (In any case, that's what I'm going to ask for when I go to see Santa in a couple of weeks...
Here is an early core sample of the famous ruthlessness: when Bobby Kennedy was young, he took a friend out sailing off Hyannis on one of the family boats. The friend did not know how to sail. The wind died. Lunchtime approached. Old Joe Kennedy was a tyrant about punctuality. Bobby, who was worrying that they could not make it ashore in time, simply dove overboard and swam for home. His friend drifted and flapped about helplessly until rescued by a passing boat. Good thing it was a nice day. Bobby never apologized...
...power of the blast and seawater tore through, destroying the gleaming arrays of switches, computers and video screens that constitute the "brain" of a submarine. All would have been killed outright or quickly drowned. From there, the water is likely to have cascaded through passageways and doors into the "sail," the conning tower above the control room, and into communications spaces and living quarters just aft of the sail. At that point, the floodwaters were probably thwarted by thick, watertight bulkheads guarding the twin VM-5 pressurized water reactors powering the submarine...
...sail, hoping not to be voted off the island for bad behavior. Our kids are perfectly manageable, but I feared a reprise of the cutthroat game of Monopoly the six adults had played back in 1991, after which I was forced to apologize for cheating. (I know, being the banker is no excuse.) I needn't have worried. We played Ping-Pong, a sport in which it's hard to cheat if you're not that good to begin with and if you've had a little wine to boot...