Happy Blackbeard's Death Day! Blackbeard was killed on this day in 1718 in a battle with the British Navy at Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Recent revisionist scholarship claims that Pirates were not so much roving murderous sodomites as floating autonomous communities that offered freedoms otherwise unavailable in that day and age. Either way, Pirates are cool dude.On the mental jukebox: Ennio Morricone--I don't know the name of it, but it's from a spaghetti western soundtrack and the last line is "we are fearless men..."
