Nasty Water!

The Weather Channel, which is now showing movies and fast devolving into something incomprehensible, calls the current Nor'Easter an "Atlantic Assault." Interesting how so many things involving inanimate objects or forces must be couched in anthropomorphically violent verbiage. Perhaps we should emulate King Canute and simply order back the waves (which he reputedly did in an astute demonstration aimed at his fawning advisors). Or perhaps we should institutionalize the punishment of inanimate objects, in this case a clearly criminal bell in a Mexico City church. It would be as relevant as some other things we enshrine in our culture.....