A U.S. defense official is quoted by the AP as saying that there was a shoot-out amongst those Somalian pirates who recently took over a cargo ship laden with Russian tanks and munitions.

The official in Washington who reported the shootout spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. He refused to elaborate and said he had no way of confirming the deaths.

But the pirate spokesman insisted the report was not true, that his colleagues were just celebrating the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr despite being surrounded by American warships and helicopters.

“We didn’t dispute over a single thing, let alone have a shootout,” pirate spokesman Sugule Ali told The Associated Press by satellite telephone Tuesday.

“We are happy on the ship and we are celebrating Eid,” Ali said. “Nothing has changed.”

Ah. Life is truly what you make of it, no? In the matter of the glass being half-full or half-empty, our pirate spokesman clearly is a man who will always plump for the former and not the latter. A beacon of inspiration in this period of doubt and trouble.

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I’m going to be listening to Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Volume 8 as much as time allows today, via the NPR live stream. At this point — in terms of the material I hadn’t already heard — my thoughts are: knockout.

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And just a quick note on the bailout blues: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan and a Bob Dylan fan) explains his own opposition to the bill, here at his website (referring to “The Brothers Karamazov”!) and below in a television interview. I’ll say it again: these are wild times.

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