plunderer

Today the list of resources extracted from Borneo reads like a modern plunderer’s shopping list: timber, gold, diamonds, bauxite, coal, natural gas, and animals poached for the pet trade or traditional medicine.

“Return to Monkey Island” re-introduces players to characters from one of the most beloved and influential franchises ever made — the optimistic, would-be plunderer Threepwood, the revenge-seeking ghost pirate harasser LeChuck and the quick-witted swordmaster Elaine Marley, generally the only reliably intelligent one of the lot.

In 1811, the poet Lord Byron ridiculed him in the poem “The Curse of Minerva”: “England owns him not: Athena, no! thy plunderer was a Scot.”

Some of those who have tracking the assertions that Obbink turned from professor to plunderer wonder whether the Hobby Lobby lawsuit might help resolve not only the question of who stole the papyri fragments from Oxford but why.

The plunderer’s paradise lies between Argentina’s maritime border and the British-held Falkland Islands in a Jamaica-sized no man’s land where fishing licenses, catch limits and oversight are non-existent.