…but this announcement makes me very, very sad.
Ah, but who believes the government, anyway? Today it’s “no mermaids,” but tomorrow they’ll say there are no unicorns, and that the space alien autopsy videos are bogus. The nerve!
When I was a child, mermaids featured prominently in my imaginative life. I loved loved loved the Hans Christian Anderson story “The Little Mermaid” (very different, and much darker, than the later Disney film).
And my brother and I used to watch this movie over and over on TV, where it was quite regularly shown. I absolutely adored it. This is just a series of vignettes from it, minus dialogue (or in a sense monologue; Ann Blyth as the mermaid is great in her silent role). But the entire thing can be found on You Tube—ah, wonder!:
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
July 3rd, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Well, that’s very nostalgic but I’m not sure it can trump Splash as a tale about a tail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSK4KSZdBr4
July 3rd, 2012 at 4:25 pm
How is it that criteria (there is no evidence) used for pooh-poohing the existence of mermaids proves the existence of AGW/CC? Science is getting as tricky as jurisprudential rationalization. Brave new world indeed.
July 3rd, 2012 at 4:38 pm
They’re still denying the Innsmouth raid, I see.
July 3rd, 2012 at 5:34 pm
For a different kind of mermaid film, try to find “Miranda” an English film, 1948 vintage, starring Glynnis Johns as a mermaid.
July 3rd, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Just another “extinct” species awaiting rediscovery.
July 3rd, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Missed that one back in the day. Must not have been able to rustle up the 10 or 15 cents admission. Bill Powell and Ann Blyth were must sees for my generation.
July 5th, 2012 at 12:40 am
Now if they’d only figure out there is no free lunch.