Monday, March 14, 2022

A horse! A horse!

 

A horse! A horse!

We need a little downtime between the Covid apocalypse, the nuclear apocalypse, and the climate apocalypse.

Just a little bit of a missile attack on the U.S. embassy. Not much. We continue to seek common ground.

There is a recurring theme in political interviews, the notion that the Russians, the Iranians, and the Chinese are American "partners." If true, that makes our response to them much more complicated. And naive.

An invasive species of spider the size of a child's hand is expected to “colonize” the entire East Coast this spring by parachuting down from the sky, researchers at the University of Georgia announced last week

My favorite:
On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine. National Security Council staffers and White House press secretary Jen Psaki briefed the influencers about the United States’ strategic goals in the region and answered questions on distributing aid to Ukrainians, working with NATO, and how the United States would react to a Russian use of nuclear weapons.

We are banning Russian dancers, conductors, and Tolstoy. Is this sort of "liberty dogs" for dachshunds? Or is this just foolish identity politics?

My second favorite: Kamala in Europe.
Is this a risk we all take in democracies? Is this an outlier? Or, the scariest, is this the norm, and are we regularly shielded from it?
Volodymyr Zelensky's former press secretary tweeted then deleted a post on Thursday saying it would be a 'tragedy' if Vice President Kamala Harris were to one day be president after she awkwardly laughed through questions at a press conference in Poland when asked about the Ukrainian refugee crisis. 'It would be a tragedy if this woman won the presidency,' Iuliia Mendel, who served Zelensky's administration from June 2019 until July 2021, wrote on Twitter before quickly deleting the post.

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