Sitemap - 2023 - The Lava Lamp: Musings About the World We Share
Let's Make 2024 the Year We Denazify Russia
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
American Conservatives: If a State Wants to Permit for Slavery, Then That Is Perfectly Fine
In the Way I Used to Think Putin's Evil Wasn't Russia
I Have a Sick Feeling About 2024!
The Orange Grinch Wishes for You to Rot in Hell if You Own an Electric Car
No Man Is a Failure Who Has Friends
My Grandmother's Christmas Village
Ukraine to Celebrate Christmas on 25 December
The West Considers Using Russia's Frozen Assets
It Wasn't My Main Gift, But It Makes a Wonderful Stocking Stuffer
Christmastime 1984: The Band Aid Song Changed My Life
T'is the Season for Amazon Seasonal Workers
I'll Be Home for Christmas, Even If in My Dreams
Kicking Trump Off the Ballot Is Democracy at Work
They Act Like a Bunch of Tough Guys But Really Are Cowards
Ah-Ha, Now I Get It: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Be Trump's Running Mate!
Russians Using Ukrainians as Human Shields
Trump Quotes Putin to 'Prove' Why U.S. Democracy Is 'Rotten'
Petrostates Seized the Initiative on Combatting Climate Change?
Maybe Humans Are Supposed to Go Extinct?
Putin to the Minister of Agriculture: 'What's Up With Your Balls?'
Has Your Company 'Gone' Metaverse Yet?
Texas Woman Denied Departure from State to Have Abortion
Russian Commander on State TV Declares 'Holy War'
Christianity and Country: Will the Christian Taliban Prevail in '24?
Putin Whispers His Intention to Remain Russia's Dictator
Went to a Russian Child's Birthday the Other Day in Portugal
Depression Settles Upon Ukrainians Living Abroad
Merry Christmas, 'Uncle Vovo!'
American Conservatives Get Another Reason to Write in Putin's Name in '24
15-Year-Old Teen Knifed to Death by 6 Other Teens in Siberia
'Expert' at Climate Summit Shocks the World
Fox News Has 'Honest Conversation About Left-Wing Fascists and Communists'
Pope Francis Sends a Trumpist Priest Packing
I Had a Dream…About the Google Nest
Snatched Up from Streets, Sick, Young Men Are Not Too Sick to Catch Bullets
Russian Woman Arrested on Red Square for Eating Caviar
If Comrade Putin Only Knew What Was Going On
Putin Calls for Russians to Have 8 Kids and Wants More Military and Religious Training in Schools
The 'Out' of Virtually Blocking People Glorifies Mediocrity and Weakness
You Can Only Close Your Eyes to So Much
'Dear Abbey, I Have a Question for Y'All'
Why the Collapsing of the 'Crypto Infrastructure' Is Good News
In Fifty Years, Russia's Population Will Dip Below 100 million
Republicans Keep Talking About Low Faith in Our Institutions
Crossing the Border from Russia to Finland and Estonia: Not as Easy as You Think
Russian Army Takes On-the-Job Training to a New Level
Trump Confirms Plans for Fascist Cleansing if Re-Elected
On a Recent Trip to Colorado, I Had to Spend A Lot of Time in Supermarkets
Kremlin Spokesman Denies Russia Is Denying the Right to Expression
Kazakh President Refuses to Speak Russia with Putin
What Did You Do (Or Didn't) Yesterday?
Ukrainian POWs Being Forced to Fight for Russia
Dirty-Energy Hypocrisy Symbolizes the World's Approach to Climate Change
The America the Right Hates Is the America They Created
Russia's Spies Can't Find Work - Or Kindergartens for Their Kids
Polls in Key Swing States Show Trump Leading Biden
When Told to Abandon Ship, Few on the Titanic Believed the Liner Could Sink
Appalling Incident at a Russian Airport: "Find the Jews"
The Ever-Evolving Table of Vladimir Putin
The Suspected Motive for the Maine Shooter: 'He Had Paranoid Beliefs'
Russia's War Mania Exacerbates the Nation's Cultural Paranoia
Nikki Haley On Maine Shooting: "Mental Health in the US is a Cancer"
Orban Compares EU Membership to Being in the Warsaw Pact
The Rudderless Republican Party
Hungary Parroting Kremlin Rhetoric Challenges Ukraine's Right to Exist
Humanity's Final 'Ism' Brings People Together Under an Umbrella of Hate, Anger, and Ignorance
Hungary Should Be Ousted from the EU and NATO
What's Happening in Gaza Has to Stop
6-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Stabbed to Death in Illinois
The Putin Doctrine: An Alternate Reality Filled with War, Famine and Heartbreak
Jim Jordan Threatens to Dissolve America's Democracy
Putin Tells Israel that Ground Assault on Gaza Is Unacceptable
Putin Needs to Put His Slippers On
Russian Relies on the West to Be Lawful and Civilized
Russia's Attack on Finnish Pipeline Challenges Nato Partnership
Have I Always Been in Love with Joni Mitchell and Just Didn't Know It?
How Are the 'Freedom Fighters' of Nicaragua Different from Ukrainians?
Does It Embarrass Anyone Else How the Republicans Make America Look?
Putin Is Losing Sleep Over His Place in History
In 1923, Hitler Used His Trial to Win the Hearts of Many Germans
MAGA Fascists Love Putin for Two Reasons
The Courage of a Young Veteran from Ukraine War Made Me Cry Yesterday
Trump Republicans Are Fueling the Next January 6th
How GD Stupid and Ungrateful Are We?
Republican Dysfunction Paralyzes Congress and America…Again
Is Booking.com's New Feature Face Control?
The Bronx…I Mean, Russia Is Burning
Mitt Romney Tells Us That His Party No Longer Believes in the Constitution
Moscow Residents Can't Understand Why City Being Targeted by Drones
The Untangling of Ukraine's Corruption Knot
40 Years Ago, I Stepped on the Front Lawn of the Man Across the Street
WMD and Voter Fraud: Same Right Wing Obsession and Same Tragic End
Arresting 20 for 'Voter Fraud,' DeSantis Bid for President Is Underway
Part 1: The Day Putin Killed 186 Russian Children
Why Do Republicans Care So Little About Voter Fraud?
Terrorized Georgia Poll Worker Forced to Sell Her House
I had THE Conversation with my Son
Loved Ones Can Be Returned Medically From Foxification
Sad Update to 'Notes from Russia's Rear: Part II'
Notes from Russia's Rear: Part II
The Climate Crisis Will Require an Authoritarian Government
Tourism Is Beginning to Resemble Mass Hysteria
Al Gore Lost His S*** at the Economic Forum in Davos
Russian Soldiers Spend Years Raping, Murdering, and Stealing - Then What?
The Broken Bodies and Minds of the Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine
Understand Russia's Door Problem, Understand Russia
I Was the CEO of an American Ice Cream Company in Russia in the 1990s
Why Are There So Many African-Americans but So Few European-Americans?
Yandex Founder Calls Putin "Barbaric"
Putin's Transition from President to Dictator
Some of the 500,000 Plus the Sackler Family Killed with OxyContin
Grandfather of 37 and Trumpist Now Targeted by Rightwing Nuts
An Interview with a Trump Supporter from Kansas
Two Videos of Russians Reacting to Tragedies Tell Us a Lot About Them
A Flight Attendant Did Her Best to Turn Me Into the Raging Passenger
You Don't Get to Come Back from It This Time, Russia
Putin Has Offered His Exit Strategy to the World
Shell-Shocked, He Died Two Days Later
What Happens to Republicans if Trump Dies Tomorrow?
The Historical Reasons Russians Are Devoid of Critical Thinking
A World of TikTok Videos and AI-Generated Drivel Abounds
Head of RT Says: 'Like Us or Starve'
A Phone Call with My Ukrainian Ex-Father-in-Law Blew My Mind
General Winter Chooses Sides, Russian Troops Freezing to Death in Droves
Widows in Russia Recycling Cardboard to Keep Soldiers Fed and Warm
Returning Russian 'Heroes' Conduct 'Courage Lessons' in Schools
My Close Friend, a 54-year-old Chain-Smoking English Teacher Was Conscripted
'In the Soviet Union We Didn't Have Bananas and All Was Fine'
Smekalka: the inner workings of the Russian mind
20 Recruitment Offices Firebombed in 24 Hours