Hurricane Hanna

In typical family-beach-trip fashion, this year will not be without a good ol' hurricane to meet us on the path - Hanna. The storm swells are really cool, but won't be as much fun without the pier close to us. They tore down the pier at our beach back in 2006. It was a shame, really, that Atlantic Beach, NC, decided to begin changing the face of the beach front so drastically that they felt the need to remove a historic landmark - the Sportsman's Pier at Atlantic Beach. They're making way for HUGE condo buildings and resorts in the hopes of bringing tons of business down there.

Thing is, even though the warmer season is longer than on the Jersey shore (5 months or so in NC compared to 3-4 months in NJ), people tend to forget that hurricane season begins early to mid August and goes through September.

Writer's Block: Sarah Palin?

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Palin's a TOTAL liability. Her 17-yr-old daughter's pregnant, she's so myopically right-wing it's nauseating, and she lobbied FOR oilfields in Alaska so that her husband and family would get rich quick - just like Chaney with Halliburton. Palin, McCain, and all the Republicans make me sick. I'm glad Palin's a liability and so drastically, undeniably much more inexperienced than Obama, John Edwards (who I can't stand, either for a myriad of other reasons), and others who have run for high-level political positions lately.