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Althouse can't stand this song -- "the endless singsong melody;" Meade recently called it a "dirge."

I like the song. I think Lightfoot was trying to mimic the feel of being on a ship at sea.

That video is well done, too -- lots of historical footage.  Plus how can you not choke up a little at 3 minutes, 53 seconds when the camera shows a photo of the captain's family holding his photo?  How insensitive can some people be?

Whose That Girl?*

Infamous femme fatale, she dealt in pleasure, pain, and pain relief. Though immortalized in a song, she doled out death.

Whose that girl?*
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*A blog post in the style of Trooper York

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Where gentlemen don't ask and ladies never tell.



O Canada. Ever been? I have been twice, just over the border at Niagara Falls. The second time, in my early forties, I was at the concession window at the camp I was at. Without thinking, I asked the lady could I use an American stamp to mail a postcard? She said no, and I replied, somewhat bemused, 'but we're so close to the border...' and immediately realized how stupid I sounded.

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