"I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

It reads like a B movie, or B- at best. But evidently this is the way they actually speak to one another.  

Is anyone paying attention?

If there was ever an occasion for "binding prayers," this would seem to be it. For the sake of our brothers and sisters in Christ living in the Middle East, let us pray ...

I'm so glad I sold my Disney stock a couple of years ago

I bought it at 25-ish when I heard they had picked up the Narnia franchise — it seemed a hopeful sign and worth supporting — and sold it when I learned they had dropped the same. Obviously, Bob Iger and Co. had absolutely zero knowledge of the books themselves and how popular Dawn Treader is compared to Prince Caspian. Meanwhile, Disney's problem child, ABC, is now producing the offal described by Walter Russell Mead over at Via Meadia.


  

UPDATE: Good for Kraft.