Those Delicately and Patiently Wrought Artifacts "Thai Sticks" could hardly still exist--could they?

Proof it is, of Thai Stick's being an art which has been lost, that the young persons who, with a weirdly pedantic air prate of it nowadays, seem not quite to understand what a Thai Stick actually was: It was not in any sense a "Spliff." At this point I will permit myself a coldly polite little shudder of gelid distaste. Jesus, Fella.  

"Macron/Poopy Pants"--fair enough. But "Macron/Judas" is bullying or hectoring.

Oh For Heavens's Sakes--

We all know already who perpetrated--planned, paid for, and participated in--the infamous Moscow Crocus City Hall  indiscriminate Massacre of Civilians (including children): The Same People who blew up the Nordstrom Pipeline: The CIA  (of course), together probably with the Thugs that call themselves the "Security Agencies" of Ukraine. To whom is this not obvious? Didn't you notice the nasty way Victoria Nuland smiled when she said, "asymmetric" and "nasty surprise"? Almost a grin--They enjoy their work.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/Suicide:

Conscience maybe. And maybe Karma. 

Alexei Navalny: Sadistic/Murderous Xenophobe

I recognize the type, from distantly recollected reading in 19th century Russian literature--There were bizarre patriotisms that sprang up under the Czars, typically containing cores of fervent idolatry of the centralized Powers of the State, with layers almost as deep of hysterical abomination of non-Russian religions and social usages. You get glimpses of it in Dostoevsky. Parlous stuff to make a Western Hero/Saint of. And any words would fail to do justice to Navalny's spectacular (this close to scurrilous) Widow, the ever-bereft "Yolanda" as President Biden calls her. (Who makes these things up?)

Male and Female created It Them

Seriously now, being a fairly non-senescent 81 years old myself,

It is, to say the least, bemusing, to see  the President proclaim himself, and prove himself to be, an unpleasantly belligerent senile incompetent. This, I conjecture, is how the CIA asserts dominance.