ukraine@war

ukraine@war

Day 6 Year 2

More anti-corruption bricolage

Feb 28, 2023
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I can now confirm it was a Kh-101 that almost blew me to smithereens in October.

So, I updated the post, accordingly.

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3 years ago · 2 likes · pgb

You know how literary hacks and opinion leaders have been bouncing around ideas about open society lately: they drone on about the anthropology of the Cossacks of Ukraine, about the structured intimacy of clarifying one’s own image and choosing a life path while burning tires on the square after picking up gardening tools at the supermarket.

Well of course it’s galling. It’s irritating that any twerp anywhere can quantify/qualify the desire for freedom when it’s so freaking hard just to make up your mind when presented with a display of trowels.

Not that that’s been an issue lately, but still.

Even more galling, duh, is when it works. Amidst the above-mentioned paraphernalia frenzy I’ve found myself falling head over heels for articles about corruption and the crashingly unsexy Andrii Borovyk, who champions Ukraine’s form-follows-function fuzz, all designed quite sma…

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