Basques safe in Iceland as district repeals decree to kill them on sight, Ashifa Kassamn (The Guardian)
Basques wanting to visit the dramatic fjords of north-western Iceland need no longer hesitate after the district of Westfjords repealed a 400-year-old decree to kill any Basque caught in the area on sight.
“The decision to do away with the decree was more symbolic than anything else,” said Westfjords district commissioner Jonas Gudmundsson. “We have laws, of course, and killing anyone– including Basques – is forbidden these days.”
New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Thursday, April 30, 2015
And you thought New Albany's outdated ordinances were bizarre.
Here's a case in which non-enforcement actually made sense. Perhaps some day it will again be legal to openly carry books on the streets of New Albany.
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