From another time

The pirating news coming from the Middle East is so surreal. Couldn't this have been printed in a newspaper a couple hundred years ago, instead of posted to the Yahoo news website today?

NEW DELHI – An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said Wednesday, as separate bands of brigands seized Thai and Iranian ships in the lawless seas.

And don't you think the little grey AP writer was tickled to finally slip brigand into an article?