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Default O/T: Abby Sunderland

On Jan 14, 11:50*am, Swingman wrote:
On 1/14/2010 5:19 AM, wrote:

"For Gawd's sake; doesn't this girl have parents?"


Apparently not.


Just another example of what would otherwise be a noble adventure of
personal achievement in the privacy of the open ocean, cheapened by the
blogging, hype, and orchestrated media involvement into nothing more
than a publicity stunt for milking "pop culture" of the perceived
rewards of '15 minutes of fame' ... barely half a peg higher than the
balloon boy's.


This.