Will Going Medieval?

Good Morning Stroock's Books political migrants. We're at the new old place once more. When we walk in, the woman behind the counter begins pouring a medium with just a bit of half and half. We're seriously considering upgrading the coffee from 'meh' to 'okay'. We are driving inexorably toward the acceptance of mediocrity. Which given events yesterday seems like a good idea. 

Never, ever underestimate the ability of the GOP to let down its base. There's a special House election on Long Island next week, Given the GOP has shown zero ability to win an election these last two years, there's no reason to think they'd win this one. Stroock's Books is 100 percent comfortable with the destruction of the Republican Party. 

To answer a question we asked yesterday, the Paratroopers Brigade is in Khan Younis, making a great slaughter of Hamas terrorists. Hamas has proffered a hostage exchange plan of its own, many parts of which Israel has already rejected. Polls show Israelis want a deal to bring the hostages home, but, '60% of Jewish Israelis believe that such a deal must not come at the price of “releasing all Palestinian prisoners and halting the fighting in Gaza,” according to a previous Israel Democracy Institute poll released in late January.' So Netanyahu has solid backing to continue the war. 

What Will's Watching: The Blues Brothers. Meh, The Blues Brothers is on Netflix and we hadn't seen in at least 20 years. Why not? This was an important movie in the 80's. The Blues Brothers is very much a product of its time and the kids on screen are our age. The Blues Brothers is a series of bits, vignettes, chaotic car chases and musical numbers. It's about Chicago and music and faith of the catholic and revival kind. Additional cheap jokes could have been had for the price of a Rabbi on screen.  A missed opportunity, no? John Belushi was already whacked out on coke, and cruises through the film saying his lines. Dan Aykroid carries the movie with likability and wit.  In 1979 director John Landis thought enough of his fellow countrymen that he assumed the police would be needed to protect the marching Illinois Nazis from an angry public. Would Hollywood do the same today? Overall, The Blues Brothers is the kind of fun movie modern Hollywood is incapable of making. 4/4

Baseball is no longer America's past time, says The New York Post. No kidding. The game has been in decline since the 80s. Major League Baseball was complacent, resting on the reputation made by the immortals of the game in the first half of the 20th century. MLB had no interest in courting younger fans. Hence a World Series day game hasn't been played since 1987. The league allowed the game to slow down and drag on for 3 or 4 hours with batters wandering around Homeplate taking practice swings and adjusting their gloves. Labor issues shortened seasons and cancelled a World Series. The game's heroes of the 90s and 2000s turned out to be steroid users. MLB didn't understand the rise of the NFL at the end of the 1950's was a dire threat. During MLB's troubled 90s, the NFL became America's most popular sport. Today, when foreigners think of American sports, they think of football. 

Why I don't hate Russia, Comrade Часть 3: Or it's important to support the current thing. When the Regime makes a thing a hate object, one must ask why. The Regime blames Russia (said in Tucker Carlson voice) for Hillary's 2016 debacle. And to prove it, they're willing to get us into a war with Russia. Moreover, the regime see's Russia as a proxy for Whites, even though millions and millions of Russians aren't White. Russia is very nationalist, and Russians are very proud of being Russian. The Regime can't have White thinking like that, now can it?

World War 1990: The Final Storm now has 100 + ratings for a 4.4 star average. TFS had a great January and is having a great February.  TFS is also bringing in new readers. We theorize that new readers see TFS's cover with the Kremlin (really St. Basil's Cathedral), think, 'Well this is interesting' and start at the beginning with World War 1990: Operation Arctic Storm. When we say we are among the best there is at what we do, it is because we are among the best there is at what we do. It ain't no delusion. 

We're feeling, not even a flicker, just a spark of an urge to take on a Medieval themed reading project. We can see it. Cloistered monks. Bearded Kings. Peasant farmers. Motte and Baily castles. Byzantine priests. Broken shields. Shattered lances. Maybe we'd turn the project into a magazine article or three. Upon this idea we shall dwell.