Post Grammy Monday

Good morning Stroock's Books Co-Dominium. We're writing from the wardroom of the CDS MacArthur... Actually, we're at the new coffee shop (which is really just the old coffee shop) wishing it were still the old coffee shop so we could at least get a decent cup of coffee. [Why do you go there, then, knobhead?-Ed]. Get out of the house. Get a different vibe. And we wrote and edited bits of various novels here, copies of which used to reside in the corner window. Also, MILF patrol [Oh my god...I'm sorry reader(s)-Ed].

The womenfolk went shopping yesterday, and it is the wise man who stays home. It was just warm enough that we grilled up some burgers for everyone. Dinner was plated when the girls walked in the door.

We are told 12 years ago today the New York Giants won Super Bowl 46. People who don't think Eli Manning is a hall of fame quarterback should find something else to watch. Perhaps The Bachelorette. Maybe Queer Eye. 'Cause, boy, you sure don't understand football. Would you rather rack up great fantasy football stats like Philip Rivers, Tim Ryan, Tony Romo...you would? To quote Herman Edwards, 'You play to win the games! Hello?'

The senate GOP negotiated a border bill with the Regime...and it's amnesty.  Even if the Border Bill is dead on arrival in the House, so what? This is where the heart of the GOPe lies. Why bother voting Republican in November? We say let 'em crash.  And what happened to Cocaine Mitch McConnell? Time to defenestrate (metaphorically).

Arutz Shiva reports: 'Egypt has sent messages to Israel warning that an influx of refugees from Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula will endanger the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.' If someone 'accidently' blew several gaps in Egypt's Gaza border defenses, that would be too bad. 'Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized to President al Sisi for the errant JDAM that blew a hundred-meter-wide gap in Egypt's Gaza wall. It was an accident, trust me, Bibi reportedly told his Egyptian counterpart.' The Arab world hates Gazans and West Bank Persons too. Who can blame them? At this point it's obvious that Bibi is dragging out hostage negotiations till the job in Khan Yunis is done. Maybe even Rafah. 

So Tucker Carlson's in Russia, colluding with the Kremlin and spreading Russian misinformation. Or maybe he's getting the big interview with Vladimir Putin. You know, practicing journalism. 'Why was war with Ukraine necessary? What peace terms would you accept?' Which brings us to Why I don't Hate Russia, Comrade Week at Stroock's Books. 

Why I Don't Hate Russia, Comrade Часть 1*: When researching the SAS raid on REDACTED [you don't have to do that anymore-Ed], we watched a lot of videos of the Kremlin and fell in love with the place. Wonderful architecture (the US certainly couldn't build anything like that today) and a hell of a history. We actually felt bad about having the SAS burn the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral to the ground. Anon pussies at Nightengale Russia accuse us of collusion, but we doubt we could get into the country having written World War 1990: The Final Storm. Oh look, TFS has 94 ratings for a 4.4 star average. Related: this post gets several hits a day. Sup with that?

Monday not Metal: we live with four women, so of course we caught a lot of the Grammys. We enjoyed the Luke Combs/Tracey Chapman Fast Car duet. For younger reader(s), Fast Car was a big deal in 1988 and all over the radio and MTV. We first heard Fast Car on MTV. The video is a perfect blend of audio and visual. And it turns out a song about poor black people also speaks to poor white people. If this blog may quote another artist, ain't that America? 

*Da, KGB handler in Moscow is paying us many rubles to disseminate Soviet, sorry, Russian propaganda about Russia being not so bad. We collect payment at midnight dead drop  where we see our breath and fog rolls across wet pavement. Then we wonder streets of San Francisco looking for American naval wessels.