Not a pretty sight, but that’s beside the point: the big news is that in the last five days, we’ve had another NINE CABINS RESERVED for the National Review 2005 British Isles Cruise! I kid you not: since this Monday we have received nine new bookings. That gives us some 120 cabins sold. But that means only 30 cabins remain available, and that we could very well be SOLD OUT by St. Valentine’s Day. I can see it now, lots and lots of lollygaggers left standing on the dock, crying as they miss the cruise of a lifetime because they took their sweet time signing up. Be one of the happy ones watching all the boo-hooing from the Promenade Deck of the beautiful Crystal Symphony (elbow to elbow with Bill Buckley, Paul Johnson, Peggy Noonan, Larry Kudlow, Robert Bork, David Pryce-Jones, Kate O’Beirne, Rich Lowry, Jay Nordlinger, and John O’Sullivan) as it pulls away for 11 phenomenal nights (July 10 – 21) of conservative revelry. Sign up right now at www.nrcruise.com.