Clarissa's Blog

On social media, regular Russians celebrate the news of the two-day-old Ukrainian infant who died in yesterday’s air strike with such unmarred joy, you’d think they just won the World Cup.

There’s nothing that could ever possess me to celebrate the death of a newborn, and I can’t figure out how they got themselves to be like this. This isn’t one or two creeps. It’s a massive, public outpouring of joy.