putin's tiger

[click image, h/t jo6pac]

Something has been off kilter in my spine the past couple days... which happens once in a while... and I've been busy jumping up and down, hanging from things while wiggling madly, inventing new and wildly improbable contortions, and tromping around suburban No There There in my effort to hasten the precise move that unlocks this particular discomfort... when I'm not in bed trying to rest it and wondering if bed mightn't have done it to me in the first place. I do have a history of waking up in mysteriously worse condition than when I fell asleep, because I run, leap and turn summersaults in my sleep... when not trying to strangle or smother myself to death.

It's hell being me.

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Oh, oh, yes, and while we're on the subject of Russian tigers and Putin, Russian media rocks!

NO REALLY.

Imagine hearing something like this in our fascist media....

I know, I know, people charge this Russian English language station with all kinds of underhanded things, but, they are developing quite a record for getting our truth-tellers who are shut out of our media on for interviews. They seem to be giving equal, or even more, weight to climate change deniers in some of their reports... and even some insisting it's getting colder... but they include scientists, Russian scientists insisting we have a climate crisis of an anthropogenic nature... so even in this they are doing a better job.

I heard some outrageous rumor that Russia has hired a PR firm to begin rehabilitating Stalin's memory... and this seems patently absurd to me, but, well, I guess we're going to see. I don't know for sure about most of what Stalin did or is said to have done, but I'm certain that he is hugely vilified in the West. I'm pretty sure he did cause the deaths of a very lot of people, and whether one might want to defend or excuse that, or condemn it to hell, just the fact that he has been made to loom large as a monster in the minds of Western societies would indicate to me that rehabilitating him, even if he were innocent as the driven snow, is something not to be attempted in this day and age. So, anyway, goofy as they may seem in some areas, I don't think they're that kind of blunderers on the world stage, but will try to keep an eye out for signs of it anyway.

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Yeah, not a good start on rehabilitating Stalin....

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My favorite actress:

[Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov]

Maybe I should start calling myself The Accidental Russophile?