We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG). I went to look up Vyacheslav Molotov to confirm that he was Stalin’s Minister of Defense during the Hungarian uprising, and discovered that he wasn’t: He was Foreign Minister. More important, I discovered that the Molotov cocktail, though used to […]
Christian Adams makes use of Putin’s long table to demonstrate the current state of affairs, as, in the wake of a United Nations condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia finds itself isolated from the rest of the world. Well, somewhat isolated. Here’s the vote on that resolution, and it’s not surprising that Belarus, […]
Bill Bramhall starts us off with a bit of optimism, and he’s correct that a lot of people are fed up with the anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept the normal responsibilities of living in society. The problem is that it really doesn’t matter how many actual, real people want the crybabies to shut up, get […]
I’m going to start the day by taking Lalo Alcaraz (AMS) to task, though only on a linguistic point. “Misinformation” and “dysinformation” are separate things entirely. Misinformation is an innocent mistake. Dysinformation is purposeful, both in the sense of “deliberate” and in the sense of having a goal. Which is a good time to fly […]