Just a few hours after after Somali pirates were shot and an American captain rescued, Tina Brown was able to tell everyone What It All Means: We're all pirates. But Tina Brown especially.

The former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor must relish the opportunity to hijack the national conversation in hours rather than weeks, now that she's running the Daily Beast. Especially when she gets to compare herself to a pirate captain in the process.

Watch how slyly Brown draws that parallel, in the midst of a column about how slow-moving U.S. corporations are just like the big boats attacked by pirates:

...big lumbering corporate entities hover on bankruptcy and plead for bailouts; baffled media companies beef about the web insurgency; the Google boys rewrite the whole web environment while mighty Microsoft is asleep...

(Emphasis added.)

Brown seems to have let her "Commander of the British Empire" title go to her head.

Still, we don't mind playing a little dress up with you, Tina, provided we get to be the pirate who isn't shot dead by Navy SEALs.