Obviously.
How much clearer can this get, as explained in this article?
What will it take for the Justice Department to indict Trump and his team of traitors?
The meme here is interesting, isn’t it?
On her show “Fresh Air” yesterday, Terry Gross interviewed American journalist and historian Anne Applebaum, who has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of Central and Eastern Europe. Most of her recent work has centered around Russia and the Ukraine, going back to the formation of the country in the early 1990s.
Terry asked her guest if she’d like to comment on the possibility that Putin could be taken out by one of his own people, perhaps by poison, which, of course, is one of his favorite tools. Applebaum denied to comment, noting only that he remains very distant (physically) from all others, and perhaps communicates in person only with his bodyguards. Yet I found it interesting that the question presented itself.
I’ve often expressed my exasperation that no one on Earth can write political comedy that comes anywhere close to that of Andy Borowitz. Everyone knows that:
It appears that Ukrainians are uploading instructional TikTok videos to operate abandoned Russian military equipment. This particular video depicts a young woman in the cockpit of a Russian tank.
This, I’ll be the first to admit, is just plain fun to watch.
I just hope all this camaraderie and pure euphoria lasts to see the end of the invasion.
Once upon a time, there was a very good idea concerning police reform that centered around the utilization of unarmed professionals to diffuse situations involving non-violent law-breakers. Wherever it’s been implemented, it has shown remarkable results in terms of effective de-escalation and, of course, a 100% reduction in lethal force. Nobody has a gun, so nobody get’s killed. (more…)
One might think that the top brass in the Republican party would move to eject Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert from Congress. Maybe the GOP has lost all sense of shame, but do speaking at white supremacist conventions and heckling the President of the United States throughout his State of the Union address jibe with the party’s mores of today?
Here’s a commencement address given by Australian comedian/intellectual Tim Minchin. He says he’s not an inspirational speaker, but in fact, it’s hard not to be inspired.
Not to give anything away, but he shares my existentialist view of human life, i.e., that we live in a cold and dispassionate universe that is utterly devoid of concern for us. Our lives have no meaning, but that doesn’t mean we’re condemned to purposelessness and the listless sense of dissatisfaction that accompanies it.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these refrigerator magnet games.
Before the vast dumbing down of the United States, their subject matter was confined either to love and positive messaging, or to absolute silliness.
Given the current zeitgeist, this conspiracy theory theme sounds like a good idea.
“Lethality Jane” makes an excellent point here, though it’s one of those cases in which decent people don’t need to be told, and it won’t deter the pigs.
As much as we admire the courage and guts of the Ukrainians, we need to be realistic, and acknowledge that Russia has a 40-mile long convey of weaponry on its way to Kiev, a city already under siege from the air.
On the other hand, the rest of the world is doing everything in its power to weaken Russia, including the divestment of assets, like the one described here.
