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More Pressure
Mar. 2nd, 2022 08:57 pmI gave Cowboy Bebop three episodes and gave up on it. Was going to watch something on Disney+ tonight, but when I launched YouTube while making dinner, Gunship's "Woken Furies" was the second song to play, and that was as good a sign as any to watch Altered Carbon instead. So, here I am, going back through the first season before finally getting around to the second.
I finished reading American Injustice before bed last night. Stellar read, but frustrating and often infuriating. So many cases of railroaded suspects, indifferent (at best) investigators, and victims denied anything like justice. Again, the United States doesn't have a justice system, it has a legal system. And there is no equality, even acknowledging that.
Moving on, I'm starting Roadside Picnic tonight, filling in one of the gaps in my SF reading. I want to get back to the Appendix N Book Club reading list soon - the new illustrated Elric of Melnibone editions look so good.
After a week of missteps, Russia seems to have had some success in its invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have entered and held part of Khersen. Russia's paying for it, though - near-universal economic and social sanctions, supply problems, and growing dissent among the Russian population. Ukraine is winning the propaganda war coming and going. Ukraine's President Zelenskyy - a former comedian - has turned into some kind of rallying figure, responding to an offer of transit out of the country with "I don't need a ride, I need bullets." Greek Orthodox inspired artwork of Mary Magdalene holding an anti-tank missile tube has become Saint Javelin of Ukraine. Smartphone videos of citizens driving alongside Russian military vehicles and lobbing Molotov cocktails. An old woman telling a Russian soldier to put sunflower seeds in his pockets so that something good will come when he dies on Ukrainian soil. It's amazing.
Despite the initial blunders, though, I can't see Russia not eventually taking Ukraine. Holding it, though - another story. There is going to be an insurgency like no other.
I finished reading American Injustice before bed last night. Stellar read, but frustrating and often infuriating. So many cases of railroaded suspects, indifferent (at best) investigators, and victims denied anything like justice. Again, the United States doesn't have a justice system, it has a legal system. And there is no equality, even acknowledging that.
Moving on, I'm starting Roadside Picnic tonight, filling in one of the gaps in my SF reading. I want to get back to the Appendix N Book Club reading list soon - the new illustrated Elric of Melnibone editions look so good.
After a week of missteps, Russia seems to have had some success in its invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have entered and held part of Khersen. Russia's paying for it, though - near-universal economic and social sanctions, supply problems, and growing dissent among the Russian population. Ukraine is winning the propaganda war coming and going. Ukraine's President Zelenskyy - a former comedian - has turned into some kind of rallying figure, responding to an offer of transit out of the country with "I don't need a ride, I need bullets." Greek Orthodox inspired artwork of Mary Magdalene holding an anti-tank missile tube has become Saint Javelin of Ukraine. Smartphone videos of citizens driving alongside Russian military vehicles and lobbing Molotov cocktails. An old woman telling a Russian soldier to put sunflower seeds in his pockets so that something good will come when he dies on Ukrainian soil. It's amazing.
Despite the initial blunders, though, I can't see Russia not eventually taking Ukraine. Holding it, though - another story. There is going to be an insurgency like no other.