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2022
5 Jul 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Tarrega, “Recuerdas del Alhambra” played by Alexandra Whittinghamoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2022
Here, there, everywhere: Russia withdraws from Snake Island; SCOTUS sets a limit on the encroachment of the EPA and the admin state more broadly; November 1 elections in Israeloriginal ↗
1 Jul 2022
Here, there, everywhere: Just how desperate is the Brahmandarin (anti)Democrat/MSM complex? Longingly looking at Occasional Cortex for POTUS in 2024?!? Also: Turkey withdraws objection to Finnish, Swedish NATO membership, Ben & Jerry’s continues in Israeloriginal ↗
30 Jun 2022
Latest Wile E. Coyote “Democrat” trick: funding “far-right MAGA” candidates in GOP primaries that they hope will turn off moderate voters.original ↗
29 Jun 2022
29 Jun 2022
Looking around: Justice Thomas wants to revisit libel law; Biden energy plan pulverized by Macron; Hong Kong no longer unsinkable; China’s tax problemoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2022
Looking around: the “free money revolution” is eating its children; observations on Roe vs. Wade repeal and how it is driving US left insane(r)original ↗
27 Jun 2022
Before Wendell the manatee, there was Wendel the drum computer that was awarded a platinum recordoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2022
BREAKING: SCOTUS overturns Roe vs. Wade, returns the authority to regulate abortion to the elected legislaturesoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
Looking around: psychological cyber-warfare in the Suwalki corridor; landmark SCOTUS rulings on 2nd amendment rights, voter ID, school choiceoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
Here, there, everywhere: Israel snap election; Macron loses majority; “death by HR” in the UKoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2022
Looking around: US recession looming; former Chief of the General Staff (UK) expects Ukraine war to “go into deep freeze” after Donbassoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2022
Looking around: Ukraine grain export options; Putin sees himself as the new Peter the Great; Dr. John Campbell’s deadpan humor about WHO COVID origins report; Bill Barr on “One Damn Thing After Another”original ↗
12 Jun 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” arrangements for guitar and for synthesizeroriginal ↗
11 Jun 2022
FSB arrests opposition gubernatorial candidate in Moscow… oops, the FBI did that in Michigan [UPDATE: Biden “jokes” about putting political opponents in prison]original ↗
10 Jun 2022
Looking around: SF Chesa Boudin recall; Kavanaugh targeting; Putin’s cooptation of much of the French elite; terrible economy scares CCP officialsoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2022
“It’s the economy, stupid”: Polls predict 80-year D blowout #dontGetCocky; Sri Lanka as a cautionary tale for the USA, othersoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2022
Looking around: Boris Johnson on borrowed time?; Elon Musk declares Tw*tter in breach of deal; young Chinese go from “lying flat” to “let it rot”; violations of Japanese airspaceoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2022
US Intel: “end is near for Putin”; Beirut, erstwhile “Paris of the Middle East”, now capital of a failing state; the Queen’s Jubileeoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2022
Here, there, everywhere: Russian colonels in obscenity-laden rant against “motherf***er” Putin, “incompetent f***ing laymen” and “bootlickers” around him; Johnny Depp wins defamation suit against Amber Heard; why Gaza did not fire rockets on Jerusalem Day; 3rd major Chinese city under lockdownoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2022
Looking around: Germany’s new government disappoints at home and abroad; leading Flemish politician eloquently pillories eco-extremismoriginal ↗
31 May 2022
Ukraine: have drones shown both tanks and fighter jets to be obsolete? Plus: RUSI director on why the West should not fall for Putin peace overtures at this timeoriginal ↗
29 May 2022
29 May 2022
Russian local politician demands end to Putin’s war on camera; Insty asks question I’ve been asking myselforiginal ↗
27 May 2022
Here, there, eveywhere: Russian concert goers break out in “F— the war” chant; other Ukraine updates; European Parliament chair gives markedly warm speech in the Knesset; double jeopardy at Princetonoriginal ↗
24 May 2022
Looking around: China doubling down on “zero-COVID” insanity; Peter Zeihan declares the end of Chinese manufacturing hegemony; Russian UN diplomat resigns, blasts Ukraine invasion; worries about world wheat supplyoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
20 May 2022
Russian retired colonel on Russia 1 state channel [!]: “The war is going badly and is likely to get worse” and Putin “had better get out of this conflict!”original ↗
18 May 2022
Tsar Wars: Attack of the Drones; why Taiwan may be an even tougher nut to crack than Ukraineoriginal ↗
17 May 2022
Looking around: In Russia, quoting Putin’s past utterances can get you arrested; Auftragstaktik; Extra money for the UK’s National Health Service mostly went to doubling the size of its bureaucracyoriginal ↗
16 May 2022
Looking around, May 15: the true story behind the US baby formula shortage; Ukraine liberates Kharkiv, wins Eurovisionoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
14 May 2022
Ukraine War, Friday the 13th edition: Putin gets Finland to apply for NATO membership, Sweden likely to follow; “negativity is only good in PCR tests”original ↗
13 May 2022
Russia spook power shifts from FSB (former KGB) to GRU (military intelligence); why Putin’s propaganda effort did not work all that well in the “independent” Donetsk and Lugansk “republics”original ↗
11 May 2022
Former Kremlin mercenary: Russian army was not prepared for a real war; Kremlin propaganda’s Janus faceoriginal ↗
10 May 2022
Putin’s VE day speech: “he’s got a lot to say, he’s got a lot of nothing to say”; Russian media hacked with anti-war messages; Sweden to decide on NATO membership May 15original ↗
9 May 2022
Ukraine, VE-Day edition: “double or quits” for Putin; Russian defense industries hampered by shortage of electronic components; meet Patron the bomb-sniffing Jack Russelloriginal ↗
8 May 2022
Breaking: Putin to undergo cancer surgery, transfer power to security council head Nikolai Patrushev?!original ↗
2 May 2022
A couple good background videos: 1939-1940 Soviet-Finnish Winter War vs. 2022 Ukraine invasion;original ↗
27 Apr 2022
How did Russia and Ukraine come about? A very brief history. 2. The emergence of Tsarist Russiaoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2022
How did Russia and Ukraine come about? A very brief history. 1. Kievan Rus, the Golden Horde, and the Polish-Lithuanian unionoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2022
Breaking: Le Figaro calls French presidential election for Macron (58%) over Le Pen (42%). In other news…original ↗
24 Apr 2022
23 Apr 2022
Walter Russell Mead on Ukraine; Joel Kotkin on the working-class volcano about to erupt; the Russian mafia connectionoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2022
Here, there, and everywhere: Russian botched logistics redux; lessons for Taiwan; puppet show, Spinal Tap, and Kamala Harris; political divide on Ukraine in… Iran?!original ↗
19 Apr 2022
Here, there, and everywhere: al-Aqsa “protestors” show just how much they actually “care” about the mosque; something rotten in the state of Harvard; another look at the siloviki, the power behind Putin’s throneoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2022
Passover/Easter post: Händel’s “Messiah” by the American Bach Soloists; R’ Jonathan Sacks zt”l on the meaning of the Passover sederoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2022
Instapundit on US left going full Orwell over Elon Musk’s Twitter bid; what is hidden from the “83% of Russians support the special operation” statisticoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2022
Meanwhile in Sri Lanka: double whammy of organic farming man-made disaster and debt peonage to Chinaoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2022
Looking around: Zelensky snubs German president; Saudi TV sketch mocks Biden’s cognitive decline; Biden calls Russia’s actions “genocide”, while blaming high US gas prices on them. [Addendum: real US inflation near 17%]original ↗
13 Apr 2022
Looking around: Finnish intelligence expert on Russia; Boris Johnson in Kiev; French presidential elections; China holding Put[a]in at arm’s lengthoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2022
Masgramondou: Yes, Ukraine can win this; Peter Zeihan on what China is learning from the Ukraine invasionoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2022
Peter Zeihan on Ukraine; Der Spiegel looks at Russian propaganda; CEO of “Russia’s Google” resigned and left for Israel; are the D preparing to put Biden out to pasture?original ↗
6 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022
Looking around: D retirement wave as red wave looms; Elon Musk now owns largest share in Tw*tter; Chechnyan involvement in Bucha massacre?original ↗
5 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022
Developing: Kyiv/Kiev region under Ukrainian control; reports of war crimes in nearby village of Butcha; reports of oral Ukraine-Russia agreement in principleoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2022
Sabbath musical delight: why so few songs use minor chords (near-)exclusively; “Nocturne” by Secret Garden; “Nowhere – Now here” by Klaus Schulzeoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2022
Some non-April Fools updates on Ukraine: Medvedev signaling Poland next?! Trent Telenko on the behavioral template of unstable regimes; Russian dissident on the rise and stagnation of the Putin regime; Russia’s frenemy Chinaoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2022
GCHQ boss: Putin being lied to by his underlings; Putin-adjacent talk show host discusses tactical nukes, creation of a “land corridor” to Kaliningrad; RFE/RL visits recaptured Trostinetsoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2022
Ukraine: Russia’s “deceptive cadence”; Israel suspends mediation efforts due to terror wave at home; “sweep in front of your own doorstep” redux; Putin reportedly feeling misled by his own top brassoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2022