Tag Archives: Soviet Union

Brilliant solution to global warming disaster

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Citing harm to the local biosphere, Turkmenistan’s president announced that he wants to extinguish the ever-burning fires in the Gates of Hell. Made me curious about Turkmenistan’s president, a guy who clearly has his fingers on … Continue reading →

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Part 2. The matriarch of all revolutions

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Naomi

As I wrote a few days ago, the Russian Revolution — as narrated by Victor Sebestyen in his historical biography, Lenin — was a series of absurdities which remind me of Armando Iannucci’s great satirical film, The Death of Stalin. … Continue reading →

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Fake news versus real news in a dictatorship: upsidedownism and samisdat in the U.S. of A.

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Naomi

How peculiarly upside down things are. As I was commenting on the scary Charlie Warzel interview with a games designer,I kept thinking about samisdat. I kept reading and typing and thinking, “What the hell?” Trump calls our free press, our … Continue reading →

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