So Turks and Caicos has laws. Its very own laws! And one of their laws punishes rather severely the possession of ammunition and guns.

Now yall know we caint go nowheres lessen we got firearms and all BUT ALMOST ALL OF THE AMERICANS ARRESTED BY TURKS AND CAICOS AUTHORITIES FOR BRINGING IN AMMO SWEAR UP AND DOWN IT WAS ALL DONE TOTALLY ACCIDENTLY. AN INNOCENT MISTAKE. WE’VE ALL AT SOME POINT IN OUR LIVES BEEN SHOCKED TO DISCOVER GUNS AND AMMO IN OUR LUGGAGE.

Yeah, a whole bunch of Americans have been arrested/detained on the islands and a bunch of governors and lawyers and NRAers over here are pissing their pants about it. It’s a big ol story cuz where the fuck do dipshit territories get off telling us we can’t take our guns everywhere?

Hungary’s new National Core Curriculum

pointedly excludes the work of Imre Kertész, Hungary’s only Nobel Prize winner for literature, surrendering a national point of pride in order to erase the contributions of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. And it adds to the core curriculum Ferenc Herczeg, a minor right-wing nationalist playwright who was celebrated and praised by Miklós Horthy, the World War II Hungarian leader who brought about an alliance between Hungary and Nazi Germany. Previous revisions of the core curriculum in prior Orbán administrations had already elevated similar minor writers into the pantheon on an obvious political basis, such as József Nyírő, a member of Parliament for the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, who harbored a passionate hatred of Jews. The new curriculum presents far-right Hungarian nationalist leaders of the past as heroes.

Sun floods the room at six 
Two steps to the balcony to watch
Tai chi social media bagpipe cigar
Distant gaze usual metaphysical confusion

Boardwalk stroll for latte and scone
Superhearty good mornings from fellow oldies
Translation:  GRATEFUL LIKE HELL I'M HERE
Here meaning the world rather than

Whatever's behind the metaphysical curtain
Latte machine broken so cafe person 
Climbs almost to the top of it while cafe people
On the ground make inadequate latte after latte

All apologize I'm fine take your time
Boardwalk stroll back to the balcony
More greetings from gratefuls
And now: Grateful metaphysical breakfast

A sign in Rehoboth Beach. Scathing Online Schoolmarm remains fascinated by the idiotic things people do with quotation marks.

From an address at Benedictine College (acceptance rate 100%):

“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

“I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I’m on this stage today, able to be the man that I am, because I have a wife who leans into her vocation.

“I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all. Homemaker.”

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Half dozen shot and two dead last Saturday! Keeping that kill count up, Elleven45!

Atlanta couldn’t be more proud: “Shut it down? Shut it down?” said the mayor. “Keep ’em coming! We want them to open two more locations. A lot of people in this state depend on our local gun industry. Buy more guns, Georgia, and keep these enterprises firing away!”

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The Finns. SOOOO pathetic. GO USA

Paul Berman weighs in.

The students want to chant these things, of course, because these slogans are transgressive. But no one wants to say what the transgression is because it’s too horrible. So we’re having a mass euphemism event: Horrible things are being advocated by people who deny that they’re advocating it.

… It’s very difficult for people with liberal ideas to recognize the extreme and frightening views that are actually upheld by totalitarian movements. In Hamas we have radical Islamists who’ve shown us in real life what they’re actually for by acting on their principles. And there’s an inability or reluctance to see that. So we have a mass movement in defense of Hamas that calls itself a mass movement in defense of human rights. It’s a blindness, but within the blindness is a seduction and a fascination. That’s evident in the transgressive thrill students feel in chanting those chants.

We spend evenings walking along the beach in search of northern lights. So far no go, but ya gotta admit that auroras over the Atlantic wouldn’t be too shabby.

The only thing I’ve wanted to share is a teeny local story, from Utica, NY.

78-year-old Louis LaPolla of Utica pled guilty in federal court in Syracuse on Friday, May 10.

LaPolla pled to soliciting and then stealing donations that were meant to be used for a scholarship fund that was under his late wife’s name…

Earlier this year, LaPolla pled guilty in Oneida County Court to a misdemeanor petit larceny charge after he admitted to using stamps, envelopes, and mailing labels belonging to the Utica City School District to send out the fundraising flyers.

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I dunno. Not just that he stole. Nothing special about that. But from a fund dear to the heart of his dead wife…

And that he even stole school district postage for the fundraising letters…

File under: Whoroscope, by Samuel Beckett.

Blogging continues.

“Trust me,” he says, “I lived this, and friends of mine died because of this stupidity.”

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 “[T]hey’re playing into the hands of the right wing in this country. And what terrifies me is that this could end up bringing [Donald] Trump back into power.”

Mark Rudd speaks.

Scathing Online Stormy explains hyperbole to the defense.

The defense forgot that Stormy was editor of her high school paper.

The school newspaper has up to the minute updates.

UD thanks her sister.