Let’s game this out. — Ukraine is not likely to give Russia the boot anytime soon. Yes, they will have some victories. And they will push back against Russia here and there. No one with good intelligence from the ground in Ukraine believes that either side will score a decisive win. White House officials admitted…

Nobody thinks of you the way you do. — Long ago, I was just starting a new job. I was new to customer service and managing support requests. I was new to talking with customers on the phone as a front line employee. I was new to the paperless office. I can recall making what I thought was a…

…to people who can’t or won’t change anyway. — There was a time in my much younger life when I hated one or more persons. I think at one point, it was a sort of searing, visceral hate. There were things that I dreamed about doing to the other person, but could never bring myself to do him or…

Every headline about the war makes me wonder what they’re not telling us. — For weeks I thought it was all just posturing. For weeks, I figured that Biden would work out some sort of diplomatic solution. I could not help but think of every headline about the buildup of troops at the border of Ukraine as a way of making us feel more…

What we can do to them, they can do to us. — It’s still pretty cold outside, so I’ve fallen into the habit of taking my kids to an indoor playground to play. While my kids play, I walk laps around a large room with a couple of playgrounds in the middle. I notice all the little people, testing their world in…

Hint: Ukraine isn’t winning. — Few people have been able to explain what happens after Ukraine wins. I mean, let’s think this through. Ukraine wins the war. Russia collapses into a puddle and it’s every man for himself, right? You know you’d like to see some comeuppance for Russia. But no one really knows what…

And to try not to think too hard about a bloated finance industry. — So nice to see that the banking industry is getting another bailout. I love how that works. They make giant mistakes and we pay for them. But at least we know now that Silicon Valley Bank catered to an industry that loves white wine. That might help to explain the…

Conflation is a very useful tactic for disabling peaceful progressives who want to end the war. — I’m a pacifist. I live my life as a pacifist. My prime directive is to err on the side of peace. I wasn’t always this way. A series of events in my life gave me powerful reasons to change my attitude about how I relate to other people. …

I liked everything else she had to say. — Ok. I’ve had my ass kicked by a food supplement that didn’t really help me with GERD. I’ve spent the last few days recovering. I’ve been looking for something that would kick me into writing gear and this is it. This morning, I saw a Jacobin article promoting the possibility…