Thursday, November 13, 2008

Notes from underground

Cheery thoughts from Putin's dungeons.

4 comments:

Tecumseh said...

It is not by accident that the financial crisis, which escalated in September of this year, immediately led to a jump in the popularity of Barack Obama, who for voters in the US in many ways embodies – at the conscious and unconscious levels – the idea of perestroika (Change we need) and, to a certain degree, can be perceived of as a modern American analogue of our Mikhail Gorbachev of mid-1980s vintage.

Channeling Zhirinovsky and Gorby. Why do all Russians think the same way? For that matter, why do all pinkos think the same way? Ah, it's a law of nature.

Mr roT said...

Hah! Good qn, AI. Remember the Russians invented everything?

Tecumseh said...

Right. Fomenko is the quintessential Russian.

Mr roT said...

That deserves a label.