Barefoot and ignorant

Those magnificent men in their flying machines: Colton Harris-Moore, the Barefoot Bandit now awaiting sentencing for his cross-continent string of burglaries and aircraft thefts, characterized police and prosecutors in monitored calls and email as “swine,” “fools” and “asses” and noted of himself, “Nobody on this planet have (sic) done what I have, except for the Wright brothers.” (above)

In case you missed it, here’s the similarity between Bandit and the brothers: The Wright brothers invented powered flight. Harris-Moore reinvented history.

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That sinking feeling: The historic ferry Kalakala is no longer listing at its moorage in Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma after a high tide lifted it off a sunken barge. After its service as a ferry the 77-year-old Kalakala spent time as a floating fish processor in Alaska. Since then it has languished, waiting for renovation (Page B2).

Kalakala is a Lushootseed word for “future fish condo.”

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1533, England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Today in History, Page A2).

Before he annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragorn, Henry told Catherine, “Anne doesn’t care what I do,” and requested an open marriage.

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