No end in sight

"Until I think of someone I'd like to kill, I can't get out of bed," said Edward Sorel, artist and spiritual godparent of this blog.  I've been up since seven.

 Today we learned that Brittney Griner of the WNBA Phoenix Mercury was arrested last month at Sheremetyevo Airport near Moscow, charged with possession of hashish oil.  In the off-season she plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg because the Mercury pay her less than the guy who books hotel rooms for the Boston Celtics.  So can we bomb Moscow now?

I know, overreaction, unrealistic and probably not good for Griner either.  Damn it, I just want to hurt some Russians.  The ones who work in the Kremlin.  Apparently we can't even get NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine.  Some Stinger missiles are on the way.  I hope there's somebody left in Kyiv to sign for them.

Can I stress, kidding?  Unlike this:

"Is there a Brutus in Russia?  Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?  The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out."  Oh, Lindsey, we do it, we don't talk about it, and we sure as hell don't tweet.  Yes, it's Lindsey Graham, the former Air Force JAG officer who still fantasizes about being a Navy SEAL.  He's been a little unstable ever since John McCain died.  Sure, McCain channeled the Beach Boys to sing "Bomb Iran" but calling for an assassination is different.  It's not even an original idea.  It's probably why Putin meets his own cabinet like this:

Marjorie Taylor Greene said the murder proposal was "irresponsible, dangerous & unhinged," and when Greene calls you unhinged, your doors have already fallen off.  At around the same time a Russian businessman living in the US named Alex Konanykhin offered a million-dollar "dead or alive" bounty on Putin, but then said he meant "arrested as a war criminal under Russian and international laws."  Not quite the same as a bomb in a briefcase.

The sanctions must be biting, because Putin is calling them "akin to an act of war."  Some guy called Naryshkin, who runs Russian foreign intelligence, is dog-whistling the American far right by complaining that "liberal-fascist" circles are trying to "cancel" Russia.  Work in critical race theory and I think you've got them, Sergei.  Don't forget to cite Fauci and Soros.  And tell Vlad that blocking Twitter and Facebook will only enrage Russian millennials who spend most of their lives staring at screens.  If they're anything like non-Russian millennials.  Of course, there's Trump's "Truth Social" but I hear the waiting list is stalled.  Like your tanks outside Kyiv.

No, I still want to kill somebody.  With art, like Sorel.