passed away. Today, it is a reminder to me that we have yet to feel any real pain from Putin's war. I wonder if the American people are ready to make sacrifices...the same people who swooned at the thought of having to wear a mask or get a shot to protect their neighbors or their own family members. I think that the Republicans are betting that we won't be up to the challenge.

last night as the Russian madman made his first moves and at 6 a.m. I tuned into Morning Joe to watch Mika read the news as if she understood it and Joe yell because that seems to be all Joe knows how to do. The kicker, however, was to listen to Willie Geist ( the cute former sports talking head, and Mike Barnacle, the Boston Globe columnist who resigned because of a couple of plagiarism "slip ups" talk about a war that they are totally unqualified to talk about.

The Russian madman has nukes and, being someone who grew up in the 50's who knows what it feels like to hear a siren and get under a desk, I won't watch these people make a joke of all of this.

Does anyone ever watch "Sister Wives" on TLC? If so, does anyone feel as I do that this Kody person is a huge, obnoxious, arrogant, authoritarian, ego-bloated rear end of a horse?