Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to help Zelensky save face after the debacle of this visit to the US. He’s written a letter to Zelensky where he blames the Ukrainian ambassador to the US who organized the visit. She’s known for being a Dem-besotted twat but we all understand that it’s ultimately Zelensky’s responsibility. Johnson is an absolute class act who’s doing the diplomatic, kind, and truly Christian thing. I’m very impressed.

I also remember how he tied himself into knots to get the Ukraine aid bill passed while the Biden administration gaslit him and Ukrainians, behaving in a way that robbed me of years of my life.

He’s never going to be popular because he’s soft-spoken and old-fashioned but I’d vote for him today if he ran for president.

By the way, my Ukrainian interview about the terrible mistakes of Zelensky’s visit is my most popular yet, with over 30,000 views and overwhelmingly positive comments.

Dude, I don’t know. He never said. Dads don’t usually discuss such things, do they? She was mega pretty, had a crowd of suitors. They were barely out of their teens when they met.

They got married because that was the only normal development for falling in love back then. People in that age group didn’t cohabit or date around. I can’t even imagine anybody suggesting to a young woman like my mother anything other than marriage.

They were married for 47 years until my father’s death.

I have received a request to review an article for a journal in Tunisia. It’s almost as cool as when I was asked to review for the journal of the Czech Society of Greek Studies.

These aren’t random requests. I actually am the best person to review these articles but still, how strange, right? Czech scholars of Greek Studies and a Tunisian journal. It’s really cool.

That’s a great question. I’m loving these great questions I’m now getting.

The fall of the Berlin Wall meant nothing. It was in the same category as Princess Diana, a thing you saw on TV.

I had very politicized parents. Starting in 1987-8, they’d act like Evangelical preachers of sorts. We’d be walking down the street or strolling through the park and suddenly either my dad or my mom would stop and start ranting loudly about the need for democracy, Ukrainian independence, all sort of anti-Soviet stuff. A crowd would gather, listening , asking questions, arguing. My father looked very Jewish and I was perennially afraid that somebody would sock him in the face. But no, it always went very well. I’ll never forget two old babcias whispering behind me, “What’s that Jewish boy saying?” “He said we, Ukrainians, should be proud of our history.” “Really? Well, you know Jews are smart. He must know what he’s talking about. What does it mean, though? What history?”

But even for our very anti-Soviet, highly vocal crowd the Berlin Wall wasn’t a big deal. We never perceived Germans, even the East ones, as being anything like us. We saw them as fabulously well off compared to us. Wall or no wall, they had a charmed life. We weren’t sure what they even had to complain about. The few very lucky people who were allowed to visit East Germany shared whispered stories about the magical existence in that land of opulence.

We never thought that, oh, well, now that the Berlin Wall fell, we’ll also be free. We knew that they can let Germans go but they’ll never let us leave.

And we were right, weren’t we? They are still not letting us leave.

My ideal man:
– 6’0+
– Good facial bone structure
– 120+ IQ
– Deep voice
– Funny
– Assertive
– Cowboy personality
– Income > $130K

(Optional)
– Ivy League educated
– Old money

— Mikayla (@honeyNonABG) September 24, 2024

And then she’ll fall in love with a 5’6 serious, sweet, timid dude with no money and no Ivy League diploma but honest and kind, and they’ll be enormously happy together with their three children and two dogs.

I’ve seen it a million times.

Signed: a woman who was very certain she’d never date, let alone marry, a Russian guy.

This is dedicated to all the incongruous, unexpected but rock-solid couples.