Merry and Pippin hit the pipeweed too hard and ended up in a Senator's office.

The West Hartford man who police said wrote profane and threatening anti-Trump graffiti at Morley Elementary School on June 15 has been ordered to stay off the property.

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West Hartford Police on June 19 released a 28-second surveillance video clip showing a bald, white man wearing a dark blue Boston Red Sox t-shirt with khaki shorts riding a bicycle onto the Morley playground accompanied by a white and brown dog, identifying the man as the suspect. In the video clip, the suspect appears to write something on a sign located on the playground. The video was time stamped at about 10:30 p.m. on June 15.
West Hartford Anti-Trump Graffiti Suspect: "I'm Sorry"

Marks told police on June 19 he vandalized the property "out of 'anger towards liberals and they are breaking major laws everyday and being disrespectful towards our government,'" according to the warrant for his arrest. He told police it was his hope that the vandalism would appear to have been done by the "Left."

Shocking. Just shocking.

The United States of America is not the best country in the world. I say that without emotion like I can tell you that the Brooklyn Nets are not the best team in the NBA. Saying as much doesn't mean I hate the Nets or hate Brooklyn or hate the NBA. The Brooklyn Nets may actually be the worst team in the NBA. They should've received the No. 1 pick in this year's draft, but they traded it away years ago for old veterans. They'll lose next year's pick, too. The men they have on the team are great guys. I've come to know several of them. I've also come to know many employees there — great people — all of them. But the team is still in rough shape.

GameBoy

Astrophotographer Alexander Pietrow recently made some unusual photo history: he is apparently the first person ever to photograph the Moon and Jupiter using a Game Boy Camera.

First released in 1998, the Game Boy Camera is a monochrome, 2-bit camera that packs a 128×112-pixel CMOS sensor. At the time of its introduction, it was the world’s smallest digital camera.

A Pakistani guy writes the most New York Times article the New York Times has ever published.

It sounds like the beginning of an uncomfortable joke: Four brown kids of Pakistani descent — from Karachi, Dubai, London and Augusta, Ga. — walk into a Hooters on a recent Saturday afternoon.

They order cheese fries, mozzarella sticks and a plate of fried pickles that will later give the Londoner (me) a wild bout of indigestion. Waitresses in the company’s trademark orange shorts flit about, taking orders and smiling at families with children. Burly men in baseball caps clink pints of gold libation. Football plays on one flat screen TV, but is muted for the golf tournament that plays on another.

In truth, this expedition wasn’t a joke, but more of a fascinating ethnographic adventure.

Behold the exotic sports bar!

It was a strange sight, even for the "sport" of professional wrestling.

A wrestler holding a microphone faced an Appalachian crowd before a match and began unleashing a torrent of insults, the nature of which seemed out of place at a pro wrestling tournament.

"I understand now why you all identify with country music. It's slow and it's simple and it's boring, just like each and every one of you."

As the crowd grew increasing hostile, the wrestler's remarks became more politically-tinged.

"You know what, I think Bernie Sanders would make a great secretary of state."

"I want to exchange your bullets for bullet points. Bullet points of knowledge."

He even called Donald Trump a "con man." The crowd exploded in jeers. "Shut up," someone yelled.

Strange, indeed. But then, the muscular man's shirt read, "Not My President."

Meet the wrestler who goes by the name "Progressive Liberal" Dan Richards, the most hated character in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountain Wrestling (AMW) program, a small professional wrestling circuit.

How come there are no songs about America in 7/4 time ?

On Thursday’s program, the InfoWars host welcomed guest Robert David Steele onto The Alex Jones Show, which airs on 118 radio stations nationwide, to talk about kidnapped children he said have been sent on a two-decade mission to space.

“We actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride,” said Steele. “So that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”

A couple used counterfeit bills to buy $780 worth of merchandise from Victoria’s Secret Monday and then tried to return the items later that same day.

The couple, which used fake $100 and $50 bills to buy the items earlier in the day, returned around 4 p.m. to try to return the goods. The employee didn’t have $780 in the drawer and gave the woman back $350 — using the same counterfeit bills passed earlier by the couple. According to the report, the woman looked at the bills, and said, “These are fake.” When the employee said she was going to call police, the unknown man and woman left the store.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the EEOC, upholding a religious discrimination claim involving a mine employee who refused to be subject to the company’s biometric hand scanner time-keeping device, on the grounds it would be tantamount to receiving the Mark of the Beast. The miner, Beverly R. Butcher, Jr., had worked at a West Virginia coal mine owned by Consol Energy Co for 37 years “without incident,” according to the Fourth Circuit’s decision. He was also a lifelong evangelical Christian and an ordained minister. As the court explained it, “Butcher’s understanding of the biblical Book of Revelation is that the Mark of the Beast brands followers of the Antichrist, allowing the Antichrist to manipulate them. And use of Consol’s hand-scanning system, Butcher feared, would result in being so ‘marked,’ for even without any physical or visible sign, his willingness to undergo the scan – whether with his right hand or his left – could lead to his identification with the Antichrist.”

If I was him, I'd be more worried about spending so much time digging around so close to Satan's clubhouse.