“If Western leaders believe Ukraine is asui generis crisis that, once resolved, will allow them to focus on other things, they had better think again.” So true. In their reaction both to the Israeli/Palestinian and Russian/Ukrainian conflicts, the West just wants the conflicting sides to shut up and go away because the noise they are making prevents the West to wallow in delicious contemplation of its imaginary misry.
“According to a poll released yesterday by CNN, the nine leading prospective 2016 GOP presidential candidates all barely hit double-digits among Republican and independent voters.” Hello, President Hillary!
It takes all I’ve got not to wish PUPPPS on idiots who drawl, “I can’t say I really understand what motivates people to go through this stuff” about women who are trying to avoid pregnancy.
“Sadly, our systems are increasingly set up to let the greedy and jealous grab and hold power.” Yes, because in the past “our systems” were set to let the altruistic and generous to grab and hold power. And of course, this is written by a white guy, who else?
The best concluding sentence to an article, ever: “The evidence continues to accumulate that the Pope is Catholic. Sooner or later even the press will figure this out.”
“The British government announced today that it will hold a public inquiry into the murder of KGB agent-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006.” Because now, suddenly, that murder became a crime and the millions brought to the UK by bandits from Russia are not looking as attractive?
“There is dissent in Putin’s inner circle. Alexei Kudrin, a close associate of the Russian President and a member of his presidential economic council, issued a warning that Russia is going in the wrong direction in an interview with Itar-Tass, a state-run news agency.” There is no “dissent.” This guy wouldn’t offer a squeak without an order from Putin. Let’s wake up already and stop projecting.
“Scan the New York Times bestseller list and you’ll find plenty of mysteries and thrillers. A novel about two children during the Second World War. A female protagonist dealing with substance abuse. Not a single novel about children whose parents can’t find work and must subsist on wits and government handouts. No stories about a carpenter living in his car with his family, chasing across the country in search of any kind of work.” Yes, it seems like all everybody wants to read are escapist fantasies. And that’s just sad.
I had no idea there were still folks who are dense enough to believe that the conflict between Israel and Palestine has anything to do with religion: “These people are fighting a conflict based almost entirely on their differing religious views, and the fact that people are still killing each other over the belief that their faith is right while all others are false is shameful and should not be supported or excused by rational people.”
“The tragedy of MH17 should be a wake-up call to Western leaders to stop dragging their feet and to take decisive action against Putin the pariah.” Pariah??? Putin is swooned over in Latin America, welcomed in China, and secretly adored by the EU. Wishful thinking should have its limits.
“How many women *never* orgasm?” None, of course. Those whose conscious prohibition against sexual pleasure is too high experience it in sleep.
“My view is that what the Russians did in Crimea, in particular, was disturbing but probably not all that serious at the same time.” If this issue is not that serious to you (which is a perfectly legitimate approach to take) then maybe it’s a good idea not to write thousands of garbled and stupid words on this frivolous and insignificant little affair.
What this silly photographer doesn’t get is that this isn’t USSR in decay. It is what USSR was like the entire time.
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