
This week, Vladimir Putin caused an international incident when he claimed Russian prostitutes are the “best in the world.”

I appreciate you hacking our election, Vlad, but don’t ever say U.S. tricks aren’t the best. They provide excellent service outside the rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.

Russian hookers are so dirty they urinate all over the bed if you merely tell them to and tip them well.
- The NYT really underplayed how chilling it would be for Trump to punish Amazon for not being “nice” to him.
- A 70-year-old sociopath is not going to change for the better.
- T.A. Frank assesses the threat of Trump getting us all blown to bits.
- Moral courage is needed as Trump moves autocracy into the Oval Office.
- A former UK diplomat weighs the veracity of the Trump dossier.
- Nixon Counsel John Dean says the new boss may be worse than his old boss.
- As Obama’s tenure concludes, let’s recall Bill O’Reilly’s asinine criticism of him.
- Richard Feynman was stunned people would live in NYC after Hiroshima.
- Manu Saadia explains why Peter Thiel fearsy Star Trek egalitarianism.
- Perhaps we’ll soon have radical abundance, but policy still will matter.
- Some Americans are opting out, forming “intentional communities.”
- Hans Berliner, who created the backgammon computer champ, just died.
- Read the original 1979 Washington Post report about Berliner’s “gammonoid.”
- Old Print Article: The Trial of J. Robert Oppenheimer. (1954)
- A brief note about P.T. Barnum and Hicks the Pirate.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Richard Dawkins, dog barbers, etc.