zondag 23 augustus 2020

zondag 23 augustus 2020 ‘Death Solves All Problems’: The Authoritarian Model of Counterinsurgency. Protesters hold a poster reading I am, you are, we are instead of Putin. We're not going to get any updates on Alexei Nalany's condition until tomorrow.

I made the 7.4-mile trek to Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

Beautiful bike ride with gorgeous houses and vast tracks of verdant farmland. Many cyclists take these county roads. My main objective: Escape Ohio's 4th Congressional District. Represented by the very unpleasant, arrogant, despotic, Republican Jim Jordan. A part of Ohio's 9th District juts out onto Baumhart Road. This is the territory of the lovely and talented Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH).

Back home for lunch. I read an interesting article from the January 2018 issue of The Atlantic by Russian-born American journalist Julia Ioffe - What Putin Really Wants. Is Russia dead set on being a global power? What's going through Putin's mind when he invades Crimea and wages war in eastern Ukraine? How did the Kremlin hack the voting infrastructure of various U.S. states?

Mix a little humor with our Authorianism in a Sci-Fi movie and we get MST3K: It Conquered the World. Venusians send flying bat-like creatures to Earth to implant mind control devices in certain human beings. Let the shlocky, sci-fi hilarity ensue!

Republicans see U.S. as better off now than 4 years ago ahead of convention. OH MY GOD! A CBS poll finds that 57% of Republicans believe the number of COVID deaths is acceptable! Pathetic!