We’ve come a long way since Fawn Hall’s shredder.

Very wise piece, thank you. I’m only a dilettante in Russian history, but it seems to me that oligarchs have long constrained and forced the hands of tsars (except for “Tsar” Stalin?). Tsar Alexander I promised great reforms including freeing the serfs, but the rich landowners made him retreat.

In the UK, they just call them “newsreaders” which is accurate to a point. I’d call them “teleprompter readers.”

Kaine is a boob.

Am boycotting it actively at this mo.

How can one not like this! Good one!!!

Big man. Came up to me with tears in his eyes, saying “Wind is killing the birds!”

Think so 🤷

He sounds actually as if he were taking credit for it.