On multiple occasions, people who know of my Russophilia and my sketchy acquaintance with the language have expressed shock that Putin wins elections by such a wide margin. They tend to take it as evidence that the elections are fixed. It is natural for us to look at a former-KGB despot and cringe. I have tried to use what I know to counter that
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So the current "official"-type Nazi party booked some rooms at the Dresden Holiday Inn. The CEO of Holiday Inn's parent company sent them a letter which you can read here.
First off, please go to this fall-on-the-floor post of spacebug's, which was originally acquired at Tim McSweeney's page of short imagined monologues. (Linked to her lj with permission, all rights reserved, you will get wet on this ride.... etc., etc.)
And then... and THEN, behold the fruits of half-assed lj user dopp.myopenid.com's neverending Real-Metal
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rgeorge, soundingsea: Forgive me my trespass: I've been wallowing in the Chick site like a pig in really tasty mud. Made from baptized fetuses. So, apologies for doing this, but it's just too fucking precious.