Democracy or Bust: Rules For a Feel-Good Revolution
Congratulations Egypt. In all seriousness, I’m happy to see that Mumbarak bitch go. You should all take note, I hated him before it was cool. Proof. But this isn’t about me, and me being a wise sage, or my beautiful flaxen locks, this is about…. other people? Over the last two weeks, Egypt has not only unseated a tyrant and got on thier way to a hastily essembled democracy, but they have schooled the world on how to run a successful and entertaining revolution. Not every uprising works. I’ve looked at the last fifty-odd years of revolution, and you’d be surprised how many either ended in terrible bloodshed or lasted so long that people just kind of got bored and wandered off. So to all of you potential...
Read MoreNever Under Yulia’s Watch…
Yesterday a bunch of Ukrainian MPs properly lost their shit when discussing Russian ships in Ukrainian waters. Please watch the following video. http://www.huliq.com/1/ukrainian-parliament-fight-over-russia-relations-869.html To fully appreciate this compelling collage of human shame, I’d like to pull out a few particularly touching elements. Not unlike the 1942 film Casablanca, this incident, I feel, will be best remembered as a collection of great moments, rather than as one cohesive story. The Umbrellas: Not two seconds after the first egg is thrown, POOF! An umbrella is found, and the speaker defiantly continues the meeting under the cover of first one, then two, then three identical black umbrellas. I get the impression that these...
Read MoreYulia Tymoshenko Moves West?
It’s official; the Orange Revolution is dead. Viktor Yanukovych is the President of the Ukraine, Viktor Yuchenko seems to be in bed with him and Our Lady of Gilded Braids is no longer the Prime Minister. The Ukraine seems poised to take a democratic step backwards and is moving ever closer to Russian-style politics. Tymoshenko didn’t take to this change without a bit of bitching and a last ditch attempt to win over Ukrainian by saying she might be into the whole “dictatorship” thing, but now it seems she’s moved on, and frankly, moved up. Her party (the Batkivshchyna Party, if you’re interested, like I am, in long words with few vowels) is now an official observer party at the European Parliament in...
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Polonoscopy is a site devoted to political fluff. While I do appreciate that there are important issues out there… with respect… eh… don’t really care. Not here anyway, not now, that is not what Polonoscopy is about. Fluff. It’s all about image and perception in politics. Rather than vote for someone based on a record of public service and commitment to the meaningful issues of the day, wouldn’t you rather vote for someone who’s personality seems similar if only slightly more impressive then your own? Of course, we all would.