WSJ Clumsy meddling in drug prices.

It’s hard to know if Democrats are really that ignorant of economics or just don’t care how much harm they do as long as the public doesn’t understand.

You may remember seeing bloody images of this Ukrainian woman, Marianna Vyshemirskaya, on TV a few weeks ago when the alleged atrocity of Russian bombing the maternity hospital in Mariupol was playing endlessly in the news. In this video she refutes the narrative that then was being pushed. She says:

Thank you, Senator Cotton, for your auditioning to replace Trump.

We will get back to you.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8bf79w

This account from the AP is for the Putin and Trump apologists around here having trouble acknowledging Russian failures and the indisputable fact of their retreat from Kyiv. The war will go on but the assault on Kyiv will remain a “defeat for the ages.” From the article. . .

” ‘It’s stunning,’ said military historian Frederick Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War, who says he knows of no parallel to a major military power like Russia invading a country at the time of its choosing and failing so utterly.”

Sometimes here in the Forum I see a comment like this one that is deeply embedded in a recent thread ostensibly discussing something other than the merits of capitalism: “Capitalism’s best friend is a secure, healthy and well educated workforce.”

Source: Moon of Alabama.

Everywhere I turn today media are talking about the massacre at Bucha, a small town in the suburbs of Kyiv. Nearly every report assumes that Russian forces murdered 100 or more Ukrainian civilians before leaving town on March 30. As the source article explains, there are good reasons to doubt the narrative we are hearing.

Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun.

One of the risks of democracy is that sooner or later special interests figure out how to vote the public purse into their own pockets. This story is an example of that.

It is an example of something more, as well: It is an example of the kind of perversity that attends end-of-empire moments in history.

Consider the irony. In a world where sexual reality is subjective, does it not make sense for there to be a civil rights lobby that channels government funds (uniquely) to sexual non-conformists, to help them pay their rent?

Of such things is justice made.

I have been wondering how to introduce this fellow to the Forum community. Because he is a former Soviet/Russian Naval officer I expect there are people here who will refuse to hear anything he has to say. They may even speak unkindly about me because I think he is worth listening to.

I was going to try to write something really preposterous today to celebrate April Fools Day, but I just can’t come up with anything more incredible than current government policy.

I used to be able to write satire