Friday, Jews, Russians, Whatever

Good morning, Stroock's Books Kibbutzim, and shabbat shalom. 

Gonna be a scorcher today, with temps climbing to the mid-90s. 

So like an idiot we hit the gym yesterday even though we'd been to the gym the previous six days. However, when we felt a bad muscle pull coming on, we decided to not act like an idiot, and cut off our workout. We love the gym. We do love it so. 

Ben Shapiro* has been slamming (rightfully so) Candace Owens, Tucker etc for their relationship with and the former's tour of Russia. Huh, and there's American anchor Rick Sanchez working for Russia Today. Huh. We admit of late to reconsidering our past relationship with Inforos, for which we were occasionally called a Russian troll. Whatever. 

We wrote newsy, 800 word op-eds about American politics and current events. Everything we ever wrote for the Ruskis was 99 and 44/100ths percent true. Otherwise, we wandered the streets of San Francisco looking for 'nuclear wessels'. We stopped writing for Inforos when the Ruskis invaded Ukraine. 

Do we miss our gig in which the editor valued our contribution and paid us the agreed upon amount on time? You're damn right we do. In an ideal world we'd have written about the American view of the Ukraine War. But events won't allow it. Oh well. We shrug in the most Mediterranean way possible and return to our coffee. 

What Will's Watching: we restarted Justified last night. Why did we ever stop? We do miss that accent. Reminder, our maternal grandparents are buried in Livermore, Kentucky. 

An interesting article at the JPost about the rise of Gadi Eisenkot in the upcoming Israeli election. Our own sense is that Naftali Bennet has blown it. According to the Times of Israel, Eisenkot is rising. Wanna make the case for Eisenkot? We're listening. 

Right now, we'd put Netanhayu's odds at no better than 50/50. But should the Iranian regime collapse, he'd probably win. As far as Iran goes. Eschew doomerism. 

DOGE report. 

We had a fantastic day yesterday. 

We smoothed over and straightened out the BAOR chapter, and it should be in good shape for the actual counterattack. 

We rewrote the Irish army counterattack scene in the Battle of Ardee chapter. 

*Shapiro presents some horrifying stats about Russia. Do click over and watch.