An American tourist in Russia
Ian Kummer 
An Adventure in Barbaric Russia So tonight I drank too much and ended up on an adventure. I met a Frenchman I know from my Russian classes at a little pub in Moscow, and afterward we walked toward the Metro. He wanted to go to a station 20 minutes away, but I happened to remember … Read more
Here’s a summary of yesterday’s podcast with Billy Bob and Ben Toth. I think Biden will not be replaced and the plan is to have him run and serve a full second term. His status as a mental vegetable makes him an asset, not a liability. The US system today much resembles the Holy Roman … Read more
The Ukraine war is the single most baffling thing I’ve ever seen in my life, even more baffling than the pandemic. “We have to help Ukraine against Russia” is a reasonable and defensible statement, but virtually every pro-Ukraine person I have encountered is irrational. I could go on at length about how every NATO talking point is absurd, but I’ve already done that many times before. Today I’m going to talk focus specifically on operational risk management.
Is it okay to admire just the “good” elements of nazism? Star Trek had an episode, Patterns of Force, that attempted to answer this exact question. Kirk and Spock arrive on a planet to discover that a rogue federation officer has established himself as dictator over the natives in an attempt to create a good nazi society with only the positive elements of nazi ideology. However, the experiment is no longer under his control, and the natives are planning to attack the neighboring planet and destroy everyone on it.
