View from the North 40: When summer fun means killer waves and Santa Claus

Scientists have finally solved the great mystery of the Bermuda Triangle that has haunted mankind for a century, but no one can figure out why Christmas season is now emerging like a mirage through the shimmer of a summer heatwave.

Several news media outlets are reporting about a BBC-aired documentary in which Dr. Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist at the University of Southampton, says that the hundred years of hype about the Bermuda Triangle being an unnatural phenomenon can be drown out by waves — really, really big waves.

That’s right, the 1,000 or so deaths in the Bermuda Triangle...