The most hilarious thing is that the debate whether Russia has anything to do with what’s happening in the South – East of Ukraine rages on.

A Russian newscast shows a Russian soldier, dressed in the uniform of the Russian army and armed with Russian military – issue weaponry standing in the midst of ruins in Donetsk and discussing “the civil war in Ukraine.” And it doesn’t occur to anybody in Russia to ask what a Russian soldier is doing in the midst of an alleged civil war.

I decided a while ago to check out of these debates because people who are still not convinced that Russia is waging a war on Ukraine will not be convinced no matter what. Many Ukrainians believe that if we try very hard, provide even more incontrovertible evidence, then we will finally be believed. But this isn’t about lack of proof. It’s about a cynical attempt to make the suffering of the victims even greater while draining their energy.

And while I’m on it, here is another idiot who keeps popping up in my blogroll:

According to a new World Bank report [ht: sm], on inequality in South Asia, among the United States, Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam, the probability of moving out of poverty within a generation (from 2005 to 2010) was highest in Vietnam.

Just to put a point on it: upward mobility from poverty was the same in the United States and Bangladesh.

The freak forgets to mention, however, that the US poverty is a tad different from poverty in Bangladesh. 

There is nothing that annoys me more than the way some pseudo-progressives brandish about the word “Bangladesh” whenever they need to feel sorry for themselves. I have no idea why, but it’s always Bangladesh they evoke when they want to make some excruciatingly stupid point about how hugely miserable they are. Not Myanmar, not Laos, not Vietnam, but always Bangladesh. Since the folks who keep prattling about Bangladesh know nothing about any of these countries, I’m guessing they choose the one whose name has the greatest number of syllables. A longer word makes them feel smarter and gives some weight to their idiotic statements. “See? Ban-gla-desh! It’s a long word I have mastered, so I must definitely know what I’m talking about!”

Obviously, the people who keep using Bangladesh to stand for “the most horrible place on Earth where everything is horrible and now let’s all feel sorry for me because of how horrible Bangladesh is” have never been to Bangladesh and will not be able to find it on a map on the first try. They haven’t read a single book by a Bangladeshi author and have no Bangladeshi friends. Yet they love to make use of the word “Bangladesh” to make points and win arguments. Curiously, the same people love to denounce colonialism with a passion and quote Edward Said like he’s their Jesus. They all agree that Orientalism is bad, yet see no problem with using “Bangladesh” as a rhetorical device.

If you read the stinky Putinoid “Naked Capitalism” website with any other goal but that of making fun of these cheap freakazoids, then please go away from my blog and don’t soil this website with your presence.

I have no idea who recommended that I place this garbage dump of a website on my blogroll but this person did me no favors. I already knew that there was a bunch of pathetic Western pseudo-Lefties who loved placing their lying tongues deep into Putin’s anal cavity. No reminders were needed of their pervasiveness. I work in academia. I see these Putinoid losers every day. They come up to me on regular occasions and mumble, with their wimpy half-smiles, “But Putin is a good guy, right?”

If anybody wasn’t convinced that the Republican Congress doesn’t want to do anything about abortion except for talking about it, here is proof.

Obviously, there was no “women’s revolt” in the Congress. It’s all just a show. And we’ll keep witnessing the show for the next 8 years.

We all know what the anti-abortion hysteria (with its outgrowth, the insane 39-week law) has done to me. But I’m still convinced that this outburst of abortion talk is a very clumsy ploy aimed at distracting us from what is really going on. Let’s not allow ourselves to be dragged into this insanity.