"I read the news today oh boy"--

Really I didn't, I haven't read the news, but that song from Sgt. Pepper is just how I feel.  I wonder if having read history all day yesterday (and a little bit of porn and news) is what's done it to me. Somehow what's flashing on my inner monitor is John Kerry's concerned, crafty, infinitely mendacious and utterly dishonest face--poor eastern Ukrainians!  It's somehow reassuring to know, from reading the Great Game, that unwarranted, irrational Russophobia has been around for at least a couple of centuries now.