Georgia vs Russia

If anyone else is like me and has absolutely no clue as to what's going down between Georgia and Russia (or who, also like me, had the knee-jerk reaction of thinking Georgia-next-to-Alabama had been attacked), the New York Times has a helpful article that partially explains reasons for the conflict and helps put the whole thing in a more historical context. I also found this blog, and more specifically these blog posts helpful while I mull over exactly what is happening there over yonder.

So Glad I Don't Live In Russia

"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.

This is just... jaw droppingly stupid logic. I had a professor who was a fanatic about Russia, and especially liked to point out how Russian women weren't interested in marrying Russian men because the men were just so sexist. And also? How if you didn't unplug your television when it wasn't being used in Communist Russia, it had a tendency to blow up on you. I kind of wish I had his e-mail address so I could send him the latest in misogynistic happenings -but he's probably already aware.