Day 596

Winter of War

National memorial to the Winter War at the Kasarmitori square in Helsinki (Photo by Lev Karavanov)

Irony is dead. Long live satire.

"Nailed it!", says Intel officer who assessed Middle East violence as "possible." This kid is going places (The Duffle Blog, Oct 11, 2023)

Adam @wapo analyzes Ukraine’s complicated predicament.

War in Gaza complicates Ukraine battle for both Zelensky and Putin (The Washington Post, Oct 12, 2023)

Actually, no. Z said lots of silly things in Brussels yesterday. Our president’s heart is in the right place, but his brain doesn’t always work correctly. Putin is to Hamas as Haniyeh is to United Russia is an unfortunate analogy we can do without. We warned about conflating the two disasters yesterday¹.

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In completely unrelated news, I have decided to extend this year’s running season until the temperature drops to -20 C. Normally, I take it easy in November, December and January, but I learned yestesterday that a new pair of sneakers are in the mail.

So, we’ll test them out.

The Hoka dogs we sang about last year have held up well, but this shoe is probably better suited for the upcoming Winter of War².

1. Day 595. The dangers of moral equivalency (October 11, 2023)

2. Day 21, Phase 3. Hinge Point in Modern History (May 29, 2022)