The Books of Bokonon

Now that we're at the eve of the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I want to take a few moments to reflect. So, this is an introspective post focused primarily on my impressions of the weeks leading up to the invasion, and after the invasion began.One thing I want to be crystal clear about is that Russia had already been at war with Ukraine for eight years by that point, having invaded Crimea in late February 2014 (following the Maidan Revolution that caused Putin's preferred despot, Yanukovich, to flee Ukraine) and would annex Crimea shortly thereafter, as well as invade portions of the Donbas region.  Late in the fall of 2021, Putin had published some rambling opinion piece that acted as a form of revisionist history in which he appeared to call for the reformation of the old Russian Empire. In a sense, I wasn't surprised, since Putin has consistently lamented the fall of the USSR, which was what the empire morphed into after the October Revoluti

I'll give the wingnuts credit: they cannot help themselves when it comes to being unspeakably idiotic. If only their idiocy didn't have awful consequences for real people. Sometimes, all any of us can do is laugh, because the alternative would be to scream. Let's take a closer look: And yes, the wingnuts are talented at whinging about "cancel culture", but it's amazing how much cancelling these clowns do when they even get a bit of power.