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I really should visit my own bookshelves more often. When did I buy B. R. Burg's Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean? Who knows, but it makes excellent subway reading. Very serious ( scholarly stuff )

mixed in with really good things like ( this )

And then there is ( this )

Pointless factoid of the day: The words "buccaneer" and "bacon" have the same root: boucan, meaning smoked meat.

Hm.