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Inexplicably, the international 24/7 English-language Russia Today TV channel has taken a liking to your Wonkette. One reason may be that we are not afraid to girlishly post sexxxy pics of Putin atop his noble steed or on a topless fishing excursion. Another reason may be that Rasputin is Wonkette’s “spirit animal.” Anyway, in this [...]
“The business of America is business” said Calvin Coolidge, America’s greatest president; the obvious implication is that the business of America’s enemies, the Foreigns, is using their eight weeks of vacation to sit around in romantic cafes, smoking and discussing their latest extramarital affairs with rueful detachment. That’s why it’s particularly disheartening to learn that [...]
What will our Unprofessional Leftist and full-time Obama apologist Sara Benincasa say about Robert Gibbs, on Russian TeeVee? The answer may surprise you. Or not, as she DEFENDS him and attacks the innocent hippies of UC Santa Cruz, who only want to smoke their marijuana bongs and close Guantanamo, with their minds. Why is she [...]
The terrible death-smog that had blanketed Moscow and was killing hundreds of people a day has now lifted, hooray! Once again the Russian Orthodox God (“Rasputin”) has stopped the suffering of his people, if by “his people” you mean the people who live in Moscow, which is pretty much what the Russian government means by [...]
More than 700 people per day are dropping dead in Moscow thanks to the poison smoke from the worst fires since Napoleon tried to burn down Russia two centuries ago. But because Putin’s Russia doesn’t want people thinking the fires are really the problem, doctors have been threatened with dismissal if they diagnose the smoke [...]
What the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is going on? Your editor just returned from a frantic/miserable week of “summer vacation,” with nothing but occasional glances at the USA Today to remind him of this American Politics/Collapse thing — did you know America Loves Cake, and everyone is still unemployed, and the nation is melting?
YOU GUYS JUST PASS THAT CAP AND TRADE BILL WHENEVER YOU GET AROUND TO IT: “Russia banned all exports of grain on Thursday after millions of acres of wheat withered in a severe drought, a portentous decision at a time when crop failures caused by heat and flooding span the northern hemisphere. Russia’s prime minister, [...]
Tom Friedman went on vacation — surely you were rudderless in his absence! — and while he was sunnin’ and funnin’ the whole thing with the Russian spies broke. Since his return from vacay, Friedman has reflected on the issue (he is reflective!) and decided that it’s “actually a good news/bad news story” for America: [...]
Everyone who misses the Cold War, with its moral simplicity and its ever-present threat of complete nuclear annihilation, is over the moon this morning as America and the Russians kicked it old school and swapped spies! America gave up ten sexy suburban Russian spies for a bunch of Russians who had actually spied for America. [...]
We’ve heard on a Numbers Station (the Internet) that Washington and Moscow are about to trade spies back and forth, proving again to the world that post-Cold War secret agent work is a joke. (The real spying is done over the Internet, using “hackers” and “the band Phish” and other deeply unseemly technologies.) The question [...]
Just days after Barack Obama took his “solid and reliable partner” Dmitry Medvedev out for hamburgers in Arlington, the Justice Department announced the breakup of a major Russian spy ring operating right there in Northern Virginia — as well as in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The spies were so deeply embedded in the [...]
What’s the best way to deal with an environmental disaster? If you’re a National Review Online writer in June 2010 or, say, the Soviet Union three or four decades ago, the answer is simple: Drop a nuclear bomb on the leaking wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. If the Rooskies used to do it, it [...]
Ukraine’s new president, Viktor Yanukovych, had a terrible fight with an opposition wreath. At least he didn’t get poisoned and terribly disfigured (by the Russians SMERSH) like that last guy, who used to be so handsome before he was nearly killed by Russia SMERSH.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is a multi-millionaire businessman, conservationist, head of the World Chess Federation, and current president of the Tibetan-style Buddhist/Russian Republic of Kalmykia on the northwest shore of the Caspian Sea. He also claims that he was abducted by space aliens. Naturally, a Russian MP wants Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to personally interrogate Ilyumzhinov about [...]
