Great Blows of the Overproud

Random thoughts about punching someone in the face

Just read Arkady Babchenko’s latest Facebook post about the futility of demonstrating against bloody dictator Alexander Lukashenko. He delivered the same peaceful-resistance-is-pointless message earlier with much fanfare, conjuring up pink ponies and his personal experiences in Russia, Ukraine and various other hell holes.

“If we are already talking about life and death, then personally I would prefer to die on the barricades with a Molotov cocktail, and not be pummeled unarmed in a police van. Actually, that is why I moved from the country of paddy wagons to the country of barricades,” he writes.

I didn’t see Arkady on the barricades in Kyiv on February 20, 2014, but I’m sure he was there, if only in spirit.