There Was A Mistake ...

 ... with the video feed from Anchorage yesterday. No, this is how fake picture was sold to the American public:

Russians, meanwhile, were getting the REAL picture of how Putin arrived to Anchorage. 

Obviously, it was much more dramatic than what was shown to a sedated American public, especially the work of the US media)) This is generally how flights by Aeroflot feel like))

P.S. This is HOW the US "won" the Cold War--not through "arms race" but through being self-deprecating, funny and free, which translated into being cool. 

On Some Silver Linings

Dostoevsky wrote in his Diary about Cervantes' immortal work this: "In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and the greatest expression of human thought; this is the bitterest irony which man was capable of conceiving. And if the world were to come to an end, and people were asked there, somewhere: “Did you understand your life on earth, and what conclusion have you drawn from it?” – man could silently hand over Don Quixote: “Such is my inference from life. – Can you condemn me for it?” 

When viewing today a wasteland that modern American art has become, I recall the interpretation of Dostoevsky's thought on Don Quixote: When the humanity will be called for a final judgement, a lot will be forgiven because Don Quixote was written. I watched recently Arrival. Amy Adams is as always stunning and apart from being a superb actress is one one of the last vestiges of true femininity and beauty in art. And then it occurred to me to steal Dostoevsky's lines in regards to Hollywood: When the United States will be called for a final judgement a lot will be forgiven because Forrest Gump, Walle-E, Interstellar and Arrival were made. This is my Silver Lining thought of a day.