I’m so sorry. If you are at all interested, I would like to offer as a low-maintenance, long-distance friend: I thrive on intermittent e-mails and will gladly send baked goods by post. I was raised by a single mom, so I get on at least one level how much of a struggle it is. If you haven’t the time or energy for that,…

The Russians literally blew an airliner full of innocent human beings out of the sky a little more than a year ago, and then trolled the entire planet by plainly denying it and moving on while an entire angry western hemisphere stood around with its dick in its hands.