Kudos to Scaramouche for her Thomas L. Friedman joke, which actually made me laugh--thereby alarming my family, who expect me to be in a dour mood when blog-reading.
Actually, Mr. Friedman, who seems to revel in the idea of blood-sucking (government) parasites getting to lord it over us sweaty, noisome _laborantes_, might find his natural readership in the clouds of Siberian mosquitoes that infest the Jewish Autonomous Region (during the brief warm season).
Incidentally, reading the NYT article was a blast from the past, as I once wrote a paper--just to annoy the professor--in college, on Stalin's establishment of various "national homelands" in the Soviet hinterlands as a paradigm of collectivist political action.
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Kudos to Scaramouche for her Thomas L. Friedman joke, which actually made me laugh--thereby alarming my family, who expect me to be in a dour mood when blog-reading.
Actually, Mr. Friedman, who seems to revel in the idea of blood-sucking (government) parasites getting to lord it over us sweaty, noisome _laborantes_, might find his natural readership in the clouds of Siberian mosquitoes that infest the Jewish Autonomous Region (during the brief warm season).
Incidentally, reading the NYT article was a blast from the past, as I once wrote a paper--just to annoy the professor--in college, on Stalin's establishment of various "national homelands" in the Soviet hinterlands as a paradigm of collectivist political action.
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