Happy………Killing of Captain Hook Day!
And here you thought I was going to go schmaltzy Happy Valentine’s Day on you!
OK, that too, but let’s stay with the if-it-bleeds-it-leads headline. On this day in 1779 the Cookster, after many years of roaming and charting the globe, got his on the shores of Hawaii’s Big Island. The following is from (click here.)
I have played this Randy Newman song a couple times previously but got to lay it on you again just because it sums up the whole European-plunder-the-world thing so well. It might even make you wonder if there aren’t some present day parallels regarding us messing around over in the Mideast. Then again, our boy Donald did promise to get us out of those wars remember?
OK, just to prove that I am a quasi-romantic here on this special day, a Valentines Day joke for you: What is the best part about Valentines Day? Chocolate sales the day after.