[Jim Moonan]

Zelenskyy is a verb.

[John Riley]

As an aside to James and John Riley -- Choctaw... Choctaw is good. Mind you, it is not Cherokee, but it will do in a pinch. If you are ever traveling through, be advised that the Choctaw run the coolest, classiest convenience stores in Indian Country. Stop. Buy a Choctaw/English dictionary.

So even my Native American heritage is trash. I can't escape it. The other side was Irish. I should have been given handicap points when I started life.

[Jennifer Reeser]

Originally Posted by Jim Moonan

Zelenskyy is a verb.

Jim, that is hysterical. Also metrical. You should write a poem!

And John Riley -- no, you are not trash. Your elisi was a special lady, I can tell.



J

[Allen Tice]

We just watched the first episode on Netflix of “Servant of the People”, which stars Zelenskyy. It’s very well done. We will watch more, one episode at a time. There’s a huge shock with comparison to the on-going events of the past 60 days. There are no words.

[John Isbell]

The WaPo has a new article chronicling Russian beheadings and torture of civilians in Bucha. Also of course executions.

Cheers,
John

[Julie Steiner]

Originally Posted by John Riley

So even my Native American heritage is trash. I can't escape it. The other side was Irish. I should have been given handicap points when I started life.

But John, everyone knows that Cherokee blood is the very best. That's why it's first choice of Southern white people who claim Native heritage. See this excellent article:

No, you are not part Cherokee. Why tribal family lore is so common among white people from Oklahoma to Georgia

[John Riley]

Great article, Julie. Who knows? My dad was from Mississippi and all I can say is his face certainly looked like what I thought of as Native American. He was recorded in his military record as Irish-Choctaw. He was wounded in France and stayed in a VA-type hospital for a year. I'm sorry it's such an ugly cliche but he became a roaring alcoholic and my mom always claimed that a psychiatrist working with him in the 50s at another VA facility essentially threw up his hands and said he couldn't do anything with a half-Irish, half-Indian alcoholic. The one picture I've seen of my grandmother, she's standing in the middle of some sort of delta foliage, resembles my father. I better stop or I'll fall into some description that is now offensive that I don't know about. She has a slight smile over-powered by this deep, dark-eyed stare. She died a few days after my father was born from puerperal fever.

[Jennifer Reeser]

Originally Posted by John Riley

The one picture I've seen of my grandmother, she's standing in the middle of some sort of delta foliage, resembles my father. I better stop or I'll fall into some description that is now offensive that I don't know about. She has a slight smile over-powered by this deep, dark-eyed stare. She died a few days after my father was born from puerperal fever.

Beautiful. I would so read a poem arisen from this. Be well, brother.

Jennifer

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Reeser

Beautiful. I would so read a poem arisen from this. Be well, brother.

Jennifer

Me too, John.

[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by John Isbell

The WaPo has a new article chronicling Russian beheadings and torture of civilians in Bucha. Also of course executions.

Cheers,
John

And lest anyone think that the Russians are not actually targeting children and that children were only killed incidental to military attacks, the WaPo today reports:

Washington Post reporters arrived at the train station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, about 15 minutes after the attack and counted at least 20 dead, including children. A large piece of a missile had landed about 100 yards from the building entrance. On one side, the words “for the children” were written in Russian.