Navalny promises to keep blogging

Not Alexy Navalny, of course. He was illegally put under house arrest last week, and is therefore unable to continue blogging. However, the navalny LiveJournal has activated a contingency plan to continue blogging about Putin administration corruption, even in the face of possible war.

Stay tuned!

Wednesday Miscellany!

• The discussion in America isn't so much on whether to intervene in the Crimean crisis, or even how to intervene, but whether Obama is to blame. Take this as a signal of how myopic we have become as a nation.


• Anyone else find it interesting that China is staying out of the Crimean crisis?


• Obama nominee who defended Mumia Abu-Jamal loses Senate vote. I am utterly unsurprised by this; nobody in a close Senate election wants to be associated with a convicted[*] cop killer ([*]even if there's a lot of evidence he was railroaded).


• Abby Martin, an anchor for RT, the American subsidiary of Kremlin mouthpiece Russia Today, took a stand on the air opposing Putin's invasion of Crimea. RT management then sent her off to Crimea. Whatever else you think about the Crimea crisis, this is Putin exiling a reporter for not toeing the line. Even Ray Charles could see that.


• Justin Raimondo on Ukrainian fascism.


• So far every red dwarf that we've examined for planets has turned up at least one planet. Part of me wonders whether this is because we live in a particularly planet-rich neighborhood of the Milky Way for some reason, or whether, on the other hand, this is just what you get with red dwarves.