The Current Situation

March is a bad month for Russian leaders (or: Happy Stalin’s Death Day!)

In a recent tweet, Odile Turcu reminded us that “Generally speaking, March is a bad month for Russian leaders”. She backed…

4 years ago

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a public resource for mapping, documenting, and verifying significant incidents that happen in the Russian…

4 years ago

The gun fantasy and the gun reality

I know that the current situation in Ukraine has a lot of American firearms enthusiasts excited (and hey; guns are…

4 years ago

A special “Caturday” greeting for Ukraine

“Caturday” may not be the internet phenomenon it once was, but I thought that this photo was both timely and…

4 years ago

Put these sunflower seeds in your pocket, so they’ll bloom when you die on Ukrainian soil.

My long-time friend Marichka Melnyk (I met her in 1989!) made me aware of this exchange between a Ukrainian woman…

4 years ago

My first encounter with “Maus” in 1987

My first encounter with Maus — the graphic novel recently banned by the school board in McMinn County in Tennessee —…

4 years ago

Never forget what MLK did for “Star Trek”

After the original Star Trek TV series’ first season in 1966, Nichelle Nichols — a.k.a. Lt. Uhura, Communications Officer on the…

4 years ago

Turkey Drop

Even though I myself was the college boyfriend who displaced a high school one, I still said “DAAAAAAMN” after seeing…

4 years ago

Veterans Day / Remembrance Day

In the U.S., November 11 is Veterans Day, a federal holiday for honoring military veterans who served in the United…

4 years ago