… as we ate breakfast while staring out the window at the hummingbirds who have found our crop of bee balm.
“Horrid terrorists. No.”
“Not Chechnya. Czechia.”
“Is that… the latest name for Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, etc.?”
“Yes.”
“Should I … ha-ha … czech it out?”
“Check out their Pirate Party. They might actually win the next election.”
“With a name like Pirate Party? Wow.”
So UD checked them out.
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All members of the Pirate Party look like extras on the set of Easy Rider. (There is a tradition of this.) Except for their leader, who looks like Bo Derek. They are very cool, very anti-corruption, very personal liberty. When the current government refused to thank Taiwan for donating anti-covid medical supplies (wouldn’t want to offend China), the Pirate Party put up an enormous THANK YOU TAIWAN image during an anti-corruption rally.