The Consequences of Russophobic Hysteria

Stephen Cohen, a voice of sanity in an ocean of hysterics, gives a sobering assessment of the costs of the current Russophobic nonsense sweeping the country: Punk music also gives us some perspective as it did in the 1980s:

Rediscovering Lost Continents

No I have not been in a coma for the past four years but at times that might have been just as well. If anything the topics about which I wrote previously have all gotten unimaginably worse whether its the state of Fitzwalkerstan, climate change, Russian American relations, and of course the unexpected outcome of our last quadrennial simulation of democracy. Yes we are now anxiously waiting for the FBI, CIA, and NSA to rescue democracy, a task none of them were designed for let alone have carried out. In the near future I hope to explore these subjects as well as share info on books and music, the things that sustain life. In the meantime I wish to observe the passing of Mark E. Smith of The Fall a musician with a unique sound and attitude to match. As he said "If its me and your granny on bongos its The Fall."