Talk Like a Pirate Day at the General Assembly

The Buttermilk Sky Organization is known for its willingness -- some would say pathetic eagerness -- to look for the silver lining.  So:

1.  Fewer security headaches for the NYPD, as President Xi of China, Chancellor Angela Merkel, the king and crown prince of Saudi Arabia and Vladimir Putin all remembered they had to see the dentist/get a haircut/kill a snow leopard/anything but travel to the UN.

2.  No idiot tweets about the Emmys as Trump had to learn to pronounce grownup words like "sovereignty" before reading them off the TelePrompter.

3.  Nobody actually walked out.

But there is more than one way to talk like a pirate, and Captain LaTweet hit them all:  military bragging, childish name-calling, describing parts of the world "going to hell," abuse of Iran for abiding by the nuclear treaty negotiated by the hated Obama, and even a weird, semi-veiled threat to invade Venezuela.  Not since Hugo Chavez called George W. Bush "the devil" has there been a nuttier performance in that chamber.  Even Tillerson and Haley looked like they wanted to be somewhere else.  Americans may deserve this crap (although come on, almost three million more of us wanted Hillary), but the world does not.

Apologies.