WL BREWSTER — The Brewster Recreation Department will hold their annual Polar Plunge at Breakwater Beach at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 7.

I went swimming in the freezing cold once, not for a plunge, just did it for no reason and I will never make that mistake again. It is a-w-f-u-l. I say this because I can obviously see why you would do it once. To say you did, but some people do it every year until they are like 98 years old, and I can’t for the life of me think of a reason.

I need answers here. Why do people do this? It literally takes no discerning talent or preparation whatsoever. Like none. So there is no gratification of achievement. Yet so many people seem to do it. Every town seems to have a polar plunge of some sort. What am I missing?

Doing a polar plunge is no different than punching yourself in the nuts as hard as you can. It doesn’t feel good, you walk funny afterwards and there’s a good chance it lowers your chances of ever having kids.

There has to be some logical explanation that I am missing, can you get high from this shit or something? Anyone?

P.S. And don’t say for charity, just donate if it’s really out of the goodness of your heart. Needy people don’t give a shit if you make a spectacle of yourself.

Boreas (Greek: Βορέας, Boréas) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant “North Wind” or “Devouring One”. Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match.

Can’t get any more dramatic than that when you name a storm can you? There goes the sneaky storm theory. According to the Weather Channel if you are trying to get from anywhere to anywhere in forever and ever you are totally screwed.

If you are literally the devil incarnate and you are worried about the storm’s impact on retail shopping, then this guy is your huckleberry:

Winter storm #Boreas could spare retailers http://t.co/dbh29WoTQQ CNBC’s @CourtReagan and I break down the impact of #Boreas on retailers

— Paul Walsh (@PaulEWalsh) November 27, 2013

I’m pretty sure that Tweet is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

Cape Air, Steamship and Hy-line service are all cancelled so you are not coming from or going to The Islands. If you are worried about Joe Biden good news! He made it safe and sound to Nantucket last night before Boreas lowered his wrath.

Thanksgiving just wouldn’t be the same on Nantucket without a visit from the vice president.

CCT – Joe Biden arrived at Nantucket Memorial Airport on Air Force Two just after 7 p.m. this evening to spend the holiday with his family, just as he has for the past 36 years.

Remember, only click that link above if you are willing to waste a CCT premium content credit.

Seeing as today is one of the least productive work days of the year anyway, the official Real Cape advice is to call in to work, go back to bed and let Boreas do his thing.

NStar to activate emergency crews ahead of storm – Utility officials say they are preparing in advance for a fierce storm expected to lash Cape Cod with wind gusts up to 50 mph Wednesday.

“We have made the decision to activate our emergency response plan as of midnight tonight,” NStar spokesman Michael Durand said today. “That will remain in effect for as long as necessary.”

It seems like every time there is a weeks warning for a storm and everybody freaks the fuck out nothing happens. These sneaky “Oh by the way we are expecting 50 mile an hour winds tomorrow” storms are the ones that screw us over and leave us without power for three weeks.

It’s like how a night that you plan for months always ends up sucking. Then it’s always some random night you didn’t even want to go out that you end up raging your face off, hooking up with a 10 and having the best time you’ve had in years.

CCT – Democrats in the Cape and Islands delegation are prodding fellow legislators to require insurers to provide benefits for certain kinds of acupuncture treatments.

The legislation – co-sponsored by state Reps. Timothy Madden, D-Nantucket; Cleon Turner, D-Dennis; and Sarah Peake, D-Provincetown, among others – has drawn support from acupuncturists…

But the bill has proven prickly with physical therapists, fueling their ongoing feud with acupuncturists over a technique known as “dry needling.”

“To be perfectly honest, I know there is a controversy – you could even call it a turf war – over this issue of dry needling and whether it’s acupuncture or not,” Peake told the Times. “That’s a fight for another day.”

Acupuncture used to be considered experimental and “very unusual,” Peake said. With time, however, it has been embraced within the medical community – yet “most, if not all, coverage plans don’t cover it now,” she said.

This one could get ugly folks! A battle for the ages! Acupuncturists and Physical Therapists in a good old fashioned political wrangling that exactly 8 people care about!

I think I am going to have to side with the acupuncturists on this one. I mean jabbing people with needles is kind of their thing. Physical therapists may go to school for years to study the human body, but they didn’t go to needle prick class right? You can’t just go around doing something “experimental and very unusual” without proper training.

This would be like if podiatrists starting practicing voodoo and using chicken blood and powdered tree bark ointment to remove bunions. Don’t think for a second that a bunch of Haitian witch doctors wouldn’t get their reps to file legislation to stop it.

It would be one thing if we were talking about some non scientific medicinal practice, but we are talking about poking people with needles here. It has been embraced in the medical community to the point that “most, if not all, coverage plans don’t cover it…”

P.S.  “Prodding fellow legislators”? “The bill has proven prickly”? I see you what you did there.