US EU Furious Row; Brussels Tells Kiev Reject Donbass Withdrawal Renews ...

Ah Realism! Where once (I was there, in say 2001) the EU leaders were benign wardens, shire guardians, they somehow without our realizing it had become instead censorious little would-be despots, abridging the rights of the people they should have been representing, and girding their loins for war.

THE FALL OF ODESA: The End of Ukraine and the Death of US Hegemony | Mea...

There it is, boys and girls, gents and ladies. Anyone who says differently should be slapped.

C.S. Lewis's Birthday

Writer of some of the most enjoyable reads I've had in life. His scholarly analyses are like sweet old wine--One reads them over and over, relishing their wit and many felicities. His deliberate fiction (with always the exception of the Screwtape Letters, which is above praise)--meh. And so also, I believe, his friend J.R.R. Tolkien thought. (Of the Chronicles of Narnia): Creaky plot, dull characters. But I will never in this life get enough of Lewis's ruminations on the Roman de la Rose. 

The Pope's in Ankara

 God help us all.

John Mearsheimer appears to be right about everything...

I particularly like his dispassionate, positive characterization of Vladimir Putin. That is just how I see and understand the man and his politic.

80th Nagasaki Day

The worst (most pointless, gratuitous, cruel) atrocities are those that somebody has a right to perpetrate.

Talking to Phil a day or two ago,

We expatiated on the Zelenski proposal to bomb Moscow. The Kremlin? The Church of Christ the Saviour? Why not St. Petersburg? Does Mr. Z. have any idea how deep the Moscow (and the St. Petersburg!) subway has been dug?