In the wake of the interview with the living legend, Sergei Lavrov, I think it is important for us mere mortals to do our part with the cultural outreach and maintenance of positive international...

Well, assuming you survived National Overeating and Football Day - if you are American, that is - you are now no doubt trying to get through the gauntlet of endless sale offers that constitute the...

The last 48 hours have seen the world move in ways that nobody expected at the beginning of the week. The Russians deployed a new weapon that they call "Oreshnik" (Орешник), which translates as...

With the Presidential Cabinet rapidly filling out, it seems we are in for a highly entertaining time between now and January 2025. So we have that much going for us, at least. As for whether...

What a week it has been, eh, lads? We have seen the worst, and the best, of the American political system this past week, and it has produced a result that I honestly did not expect. Yet, here we...

Once again, I find myself travelling, because reasons. It has actually been quite a busy year for me, in that respect, at least - I calculate that, by the time I hit the end of the year, I will have...

Now that the BRICS Summit in Kazan' has ended, we can take the time to digest the enormity of the events that have just taken place. As I pointed out in my previous poast, the sheer scale and impact...

We finally have a Friday lady showing up on time! (Well... sort of.) The lady's name in this instance is fortuitous, given the poast I just wrote up, about the possibility of creating a true...

We are just about done with catch-up mode in this most beloved section of Ye Olde Blogge. Not that anyone particularly cares, but I did actually intend to poast this one up yesterday evening - and...

I probably really should just consider renaming this segment into "Weekend T&A", given how often I miss the Friday deadline. This time, I kind of sort of have a decent excuse - well, depending...

As y'all may have surmised by now, we are rather far behind in terms of this most beloved segment of the site. This is due to a number of factors - work, travel, sickness (yes, still), and of...

We are back in business, lads, and long overdue, too. Indeed, I think we are a solid 4 weeks behind our regularly scheduled programming for this most popular and beloved segment of the site, so...