Lost Continents

Stephen Cohen, a voice of sanity in an ocean of hysterics, gives a sobering assessment of the costs of the current Russophobic nonsense sweeping the country:
Punk music also gives us some perspective as it did in the 1980s:

No I have not been in a coma for the past four years but at times that might have been just as well. If anything the topics about which I wrote previously have all gotten unimaginably worse whether its the state of Fitzwalkerstan, climate change, Russian...

While not one inclined towards optimism the past week seems to hold some hope that the charade of lies, BS, and general criminality may be showing signs of fracture in the once great state of Wisconsin. The Journal Senntinel for once gets it right:
Gov. Walker's rockiest week since the recall culminated with the release Thursday of documents containing allegations by prosecutors that he was part of “a criminal scheme” to bypass state election laws. But the story that in the long run may represent...

Sounds like a reasonable thought in an Oligarchic Kleptocracy. At this point I don't give a rip about Ukraine Iraq Afghanistan or Iran. If we can't liberate Wisconsin what can we do?