Vladimir Putin: Mighty Warlord, Song and Piano Man

Stroock's Books is seeing a yuge traffic spike. This is not surprising. During times of crisis internationale, people are going to want sharp, incisive analyses.  New visits are mostly from the United States, but some are also from Sweeden. Hello Nightingale Russia. We missed you. Bravery in anonymity. 

As it happens one of our Russian neighbors is actually Ukrainian (and a Jew)*. He and his friends provided key info about Odessa and Russian internal passports for the Tevelev subplot in Battle of the Three Seas. We asked him how to pronounce Ukraine's capital city and he said, 'Ki you pronounce like Keano Reeves first 2 letters and last two like ef.'

Some dumbfucks are calling for the US to do more in Ukraine. Quoth the New York Post: 'At the very least, Biden needs to stop saying with certainty that “we will not fight Russia,” as he’s done multiple times. Telegraphing exactly what we will and will not do gives Putin more time and flexibility to tighten his grip on Kyiv.' The Post endorsed no-fly-zones and drone strikes before going on to compare Putin to Hitler and Stalin. Retards. Did disgraced Neocon John Podhoretz wright that? Because we think disgraced Neocon John Podhoretz might have written that.

CDR Salamander has a great post on the situation in Ukraine, and agrees with us. The Russians may be blundering, but they're blundering relentlessly forward. In the end Russia wins, we think. As for the international pressure, which we admit is formidable, we wonder if Russians really care. This is a nation that suffered 20 million dead in The Great Patriotic War. It remains to be seen if a little inflation is going to bother these people.

Putin Watch: Putin playing piano and singing Fats Domino's Blueberry HiIll:

The Bridgewater Breeze reports on Bridgewater/Raritan High School's walkout yesterday to protest you know what and who. The protest was organized by Tormel Pittman of New Brunswick: 'Less than 30 people and only a handful of students attended the march. Although the protestors agreed that more adults and students should have shown, Pittman said that after all the years he’s organized demonstrations, he “would rather have a small group of strong people than a large group of weak people.' That's another fine report from The Breeze's Emma Uk.  

The town council and Mayer Mathew Moench have been silent on the Z'kye Hussain affair. On the one hand, who can blame them? On the gripping hand, do your goddamn job. Also Al Sharpton is coming to town today. We've been to three protests and we're really wondering if we need to go to this one. Why do that to ourselves? Maybe we can get a selfie with Al? 

What Will's Watching/Not Watching: We didn't watch Joe's thing last night but Middle Daughter did or tried to. She fell asleep by 9:30. The girl has taken an interest in current events and is tuning into CNN's Erin Burnett at 7 PM. You know, the show doesn't induce vomiting in us. And Erin Burnett sure is easy on the eyes. Also, not a dingbat.  

*They're everywhere.

Admiral Redskin?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams may be tough on crime, but it won't matter if the new Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, is pro-criminal. John Podhoretz laments: 'The newly sworn-in Manhattan district attorney has just made the largest in-kind contribution to the GOP in modern history in the form of the already-notorious memo he sent to his underlings announcing how his office would handle its caseload. Simply put, Bragg’s approach is to pretend crime isn’t crime, that criminals aren’t criminals and that punishing people for breaking the law is bad.' This blog supports prison, bail, and sentencing reform. DA's like Alving Bragg make it difficult to do so. 

Moving on...25 House Democrats have announced they're retiring.  We'll declare that the number of House Dems retiring will be the number of House seats the GOP picks up in 2022. This blog feels that because of Gerrymandering and the Great Blue State Exodus, the 2022 Red Wave will not be as huge as the 1994 and 2010 Red Waves. 

The retiring Dems are bad enough, 7 from the Congressional Black Caucus alone. Celebrate all you want, but these people will be replaced by the young and woke. You know, AOC and the rest of the brother loving Squad. Enjoy the short-term gains, GOP. In the long-term, this will be bad. 

Breitbart reports that the Washington Football Team may have inadvertently revealed its name change, which was not to be announced till 2 Feb. We've loathed the Redskins for a quarter of a century now, so anything that adds to their humiliation is alright by us. Washington Admirals? It's....Okaaaay? A few years ago, we called on Redskin's owner Daniel Snyder (spawn of Satan) to rename the team the Red Tails and use the tail fin of a Tuskegee P-51 for the logo. But no one listens to us. 

I hate the Redskins/ Oh, yes I do

And Danny Snyder/ Go to hell fuck you

Baring Red Tails, how about the Washington Foreskins?

Should we expound on our loathing of the WFT in a Substack post? Maybe.

Extrapolating further...the NFL has a real naming problem. The two 90's expansion teams, Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers are terrible and unimaginative names.  And don't get us started on the black and teal uniforms. What's your favorite/least favorite team name?

What Will's Watching, The Book of Boba Fett, episode II: This episode told the story of Boba Fett's time with the Tusken Sand People and eventual acceptance into the tribe. Was this the Book of Boba Fett, or the Book of Paul Atredies? Better than episode I, but still rote and predictable. We actually nodded off for a few seconds. Here's hoping The Book of Boba Fett continues to improve. 1/4