The Voice of America.

She’s at the shore, her balcony riding the waves, and all is well.

Storms suit ol’ UD – especially storms over a beach and a big sky. Gusty emotions on wet roads on autumn nights is pretty much UD’s favorite line of poetry. She’s after turbulence.

What all the meteorologists are currently calling an “angry” ocean is nay, not so much. Its trick of looking blue (see Larkin for a version of this phrase) turns over, on occasion, into the immense zinc-and-gunmetal expanse (Merrill) that represents Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential.

Gee, even in Montana they’re failing to see the adorableness of people dandling Second Amendment doodads on their knees.

Parents in Billings are all ooh ooh cuz a nut across the street from their kids’ elementary school stomps about heavily armed in front of his house. Montana being Montana the dude – even though once a felon! – is free to finger his guns in public. And I dunno why, but even that state’s gun lovers are scared shitless by a totally dangerous asshole aiming large weapons at their kids’ school all day.

They’re demanding someone official do something – but they’re the ones who voted to have the country’s worst gun laws. So enjoy.

Those five all at once, and this is ruled accident rather than suicide.

Even if we want to say she died from unknowing ingestion of fentanyl, doesn’t exposing yourself to the possibility of fatally tainted drugs suggest a suicidal degree of self-neglect?

If true, witches’ brew.

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Kind of interesting to think about … You’re a concerned uncle (like the guy who just testified to the stuff in my title), and you know those kids are being fucked up… OTOH it’s clear from the father’s employer’s statement (he was valued, respected; his “leadership and vision were integral”) that he was perfectly capable of acting normally in the world…

As a family member visiting occasionally from out of state, you perceive the armed paranoia and the miserable children, let’s say. But you also perceive great affluence – the American success story – and an absence of overt dysfunction in the home. Clearly, you’re not going to intervene in a dramatic way.

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Will the defense try something like this? It was only a matter of time before the father – like Lindsay Clancy – instructed each of his kids to “Go to God” before murdering them, his wife, and himself. The oldest kid was the only one old enough to perceive this threat. He acted to take the parents out.

Prosecutor: So he killed everybody?

Terrified by what he had done, he just kept shooting…

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Or take it the other way. So thoroughly, so anxiously, had the son absorbed the father’s Armageddon lesson that he took it upon himself to transport the family Godward.

Prosecution: Why didn’t he kill himself?

Good question.

… boasts half a million dollar residences in close proximity to a gun range with late night shooting and automatic weapons.

Pock-marked parlors and bullet-rich carpeting complement the whirrbizzbang that makes PP a unique setting for the sound of freedom.

And here are the hard-won rights Arkansas citizens have scored with their gun laws:

A 23 year old with a loaded FN FNX-45 .45 ACP handgun got pissed because he was barred from an Arkansas State University party. Pulled out the gun and threatened to kill the hosts.

But it often fails.

Ain’t gonna be any White House news coverage of The Greatest President in the History of Carbon-Based Life Forms.

Peter Baker explains:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/21/business/trump-white-house-cnn-politico-msnow

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Wow. The news keeps coming. The North Korean News Agency has announced it will step into the breach. Can’t wait!

A truly cosmic convergence in this my beloved country: At one of Philly’s trendiest, most expensive, outdoor cafes, a guy on the sidewalk shoved a big black gun in a diner’s face with one hand and took his laptop with the other. All of it was filmed.

The gun guy was arrested.

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This one has everything – our affluent luxe leisure … SO luxe and leisured it forgets to add to the equation killers lining the luxe …

A sweet simple transaction. You give me the laptop or I kill you on this lovely late summer afternoon in front of these people sipping La Colombe. So Don DeLillo.

Another high-profile British columnist doesn’t get why her country continues to carry the black mark of the burqa. “Whenever I see them, I never, ever get over the way that I feel. I feel livid — ragingly angry — like I have to do something about it. But what?”

Just exactly what you are doing. Write angrily against it. Continue to despise “the insistent, malicious arguing for separate laws, separate schools, separate communities — for, essentially, ghettos. For the headscarf on female children and the ongoing, mendacious support for the burqa and the niqab, using our own liberalism as a weapon against us.”

Persist in pointing out that there’s nothing liberal about a state openly affiliating with – indeed subsidizing – an organization of cruel fanatics. “I would like us to stop giving tacit support to female oppression from the youngest age — if you have any doubts about agency, let me tell you: there is no way a child who cannot even read yet is able to choose a headscarf.”

“No one wants to curb the poisonous love-in with one of the most woman-hating ideologies on earth.” Actually, lots of people do. But they are afraid of being classed with the right wing. They haven’t noticed that the strongest opposition to the burqa in many of the countries the writer lists comes from the left.

Much of England remains in the look away look away position relative to the burqa. Sartre called what they’re doing bad faith. Liberal states that don’t want to be in bad faith ban the burqa.

England will get there eventually. Honest writers like Camilla Long help it on its way.

The Guardian looks at our exploding familicides.

She is the voice of America, the Kate Smith of our time.

Her $25 million Hamptons estate recently sold for 5.8 mill at auction. She refuses to leave it. God Bless America.

She’s the woman in the blue tee. Starting at 1:40. SO PROUD.

Police say Corey B. Ward pointed a handgun at people on College Street before officers found the weapon buried in mulch.