28 November—So the latest intelligence is that in his vain and vainglorious crusade for the Nobel Peace Prize Donald Trump is prepared to recognize his BFF Vladimir Putrid’s control over all the land Russia has so far been able to occupy and subjugate in Ukraine. For the record, recognition of territorial gains captured by aggressors through force is against diplomatic convention and international law and is specifically prohibited by the United Nations Charter and virtually all treaties. But why should that silly technicality bother Trump or Putrid? It’s only a law, after all, and we know how they deal with laws that get in their way.

Ukraine, her allies, and all non-scumbags naturally don’t like Trump’s unbelievable and unacceptable “peace plan” that appears to have been dictated by Putrid to Trump’s inept peace envoy and son-in-law with no input at all from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy or anybody not connected with Putrid. (It’s worth noting parenthetically that Trump’s peace envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner are in the real estate business.) But little things like that have never deterred—nor even bothered—Trump. Following his usual modus operandi, then, he’ll just bully Zelenskyy and Europe until he gets what he wants.

Back home, Sportsman’s Warehouse was good enough to send an email this morning that gives us another view of our local snipers. At the risk of being bloody minded—hypercritically judgemental—is adventuring like a local by sniping at your neighbors any way to make friends? Or keep them?