If anybody [in the office pool] had this week as the one when the world’s many asshats would finally stop **** more or less everything up, and let the rest of us just LIVE OUR **** LIVES IN PEACE, you lost your **** money, didn’tcha? ...with the casualties they’re taking, Russia seems to be demilitarizing the wrong country. Personally, I think if you can’t get through one measly month of your war of aggression without begging your Syrian buddies to replenish your supply of bullet sponges, you probably never had much of a shot at restoring the full glory of the Soviet Empire, bucko.
.... but maybe, just maybe, Bret Stephens [of the N.Y. Times] is right, and this monthlong **** parade actually masked the master plan of a KGB super genius playing eleventy-fifth-dimensional chess, and the West is playing directly into his hands by providing the arms that’re destroying his military machine in front of the watching world, and taint-punting his cut-rate economy into the **** sun.
Or, what if Bret’s pompous fanfic is the most perfect example to date of the neuron-rotting condition doctors are calling Contrarian Pundit Brain? I’m starting to suspect NYT finds their conservative columnists by wandering into wingnut think tanks and offering the gig to whoever can fit the most nickels up their nose."