5.30 In the seventh game of their series, the Rangers beat Carolina 6-2, and advance to the conference finals.
5.28 Cathy and Tim, Shawn and Molly, Cara, Connor and Ivy, and Ginny and I endure an awful restaurant experience at Saratoga Lake. But we had fun nonetheless.
5.24 The Cushing Tour resumes at the New Bedford, MA, Civil War Roundtable.
5.24 An 18-year-old gunman opened fire yesterday at a Texas elementary school in Uvalde TX, about 85 miles west of San Antonio, killing at least 19 children and two adults. Biden: “Where in God’s name is our backbone?”
5.24 Piper attacks Wendy.
5.20 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will no longer be able to receive communion in her hometown of San Francisco after the local archdiocese said her vow to make abortion legal crossed a line the Catholic church could not ignore. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone notified Pelosi that her staunch support of abortion and her refusal to personally explain her position to him forced his hand. “After numerous attempts to speak with Speaker Pelosi to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion,” he said.
5.20 Roger Angell dies at 101.
5.20 At Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, a street named for Robert E. Lee was renamed John Warren Avenue to honor First Lt. John Warren Jr., who threw himself on a grenade to save three men in his platoon in Vietnam. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
5.19 Oklahoma’s legislature passed a bill that would ban abortions from the stage of “fertilization” and allow private citizens to sue abortion providers who “knowingly” perform or induce an abortion “on a pregnant woman.”
5.15 In OT of Game 7, the Rangers beat the Penguins 4-3 on Artemi Panerin‘s goal. The Rangers overcame a 3-1 deficit, and came from behind in each of the three final games.
5.16 David Frum in The Atlantic: “Racist ideology is an evil in itself. But the American exception that bathes this country in blood and grief again and again and again is not that we are uniquely susceptible to racism or jihadism or veganism. The American exception is the unique ease of access to weapons.”
5.15 David Rothkopf on Twitter: “It’s the guns, but it’s not just the guns. It’s the racism, but it’s not just the racism. It’s the misogyny, but it’s not just the misogyny. It’s the attacks on democracy but it’s not just the attacks on democracy. It’s the assault on the truth, on teaching history and science, but it’s not just the assault on the truth and facts and reality and banning books. It’s the corruption but it’s not just the corruption and the cover-ups and the obstruction of justice and the gaming of our courts. What happened in Buffalo is not just about some isolated shooter, some deranged sociopath. He was fueled by an ideology of hate promoted by an American president, by a leading American news channel, by an entire US political party.”
5.14 White supremacist gunman in Buffalo kills ten and wounds three at a supermarket. Eleven of the victims were black. The shooter livestreamed the attack on Twitch.
5.13 A British court ruled that a man who a co-worker called “a bald cunt” was a victim of sexual harassment was a victim of sexual harassment. “It is difficult to conclude other than that Mr King uttered those words with the purpose of violating [Finn’s] dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for him. Of his own admission, Mr King’s intention was to threaten [Finn] and to insult him. In our judgment, there is a connection between the word ‘bald’ on the one hand and the protected characteristic of sex on the other. [The company’s lawyer] was right to submit that women as well as men may be bald. However, as all three members of the tribunal will vouchsafe, baldness is much more prevalent in men than women. We find it to be inherently related to sex.”
5.12 Covid deaths in the US surpass one million.5.12 Elizabeth Bruenig in The Atlantic: “American children suffer in ways children living in countries of comparable wealth and development do not: More kids live in relative poverty; more babies die; more grade schoolers routinely miss meals. And American parents—particularly American mothers—suffer too, in ways our international counterparts do not: Our maternal mortality rates are much higher; our options for taking leave to give birth and recover from it are far more limited; our resources for support are radically circumscribed. Our birth rate is as low as it’s ever been, and a rising share of childless young adults in the United States now report that they do not ever plan to have children. This is devastation; this is loss.”
Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards, Gram Parsons, and Gretchen Burrell, photographed by Dominique Tarlé at Villa Nellcôte, on the French riviera, 1971.