pirates<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhat is it with all the streets, teams, and such that are named after pirates? There’s a Buccaneer in L.A. (in a set of nautical-named streets by the beach); there are of course the Tampa Bay Buccanneers, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and so on. No-one would want to say “I live on Rapist Road, right by Murderer Boulevard,” but somehow the pirates — who were robbers, murderers, and rapists — are cool. I think I know what’s going on: Enough time has passed that people have set aside the reality of piracy, and substituted for it some romantic glow. But that this glorification of criminals happens doesn’t make it right.<\/p>\n
So in the year 2303, will we have “The Toledo Terrorists” and “The LA Al-Quaeda”?<\/p>\n
Oddness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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