Via Bruce Sterling, an annotated index of Russian disinformation.  Much of which seems aimed at demonstrating that the Baltic Republics never existed, spend their days persecuting Russian nationals, and only exist now because of a perfidious Western campaign aimed at President Putin personally. War by spring?

So our new president-elect is the simultaneous choice of the KGB, FBI, and KKK.   That’s gotta be a first. (Now I know that Trump supporters are deeply resentful of charges of racism.  “I’m not a racist, and neither is Trump,” I hear.  “He just used the racists, and fooled them into voting for him. (If […]

During my week in Palau I did 25 dives, but after we shifted to Chuuk I did eight dives over the course of five days, all of them on Japanese wrecks from the Second World War.  I was more than ready for the more leisurely pace.  Doing five dives per day is work.   Instead of […]

This just in . . .  Most Famous Author in the World George R.R. Martin will be joining the Taos Toolbox faculty as a special guest! George was our guest for the very first Taos Toolbox, and now he’s consented to return for our tenth anniversary.  We’re pleased and flattered to have him, even if […]