Mark_B: Lots of fresh editing over at wikipedia.

Back in 2005-06 I was part of the Wikipedia crew that watched for new crap like that and reverted it back to the way it was, and/or recommended the article for deletion. Mostly it was little garage bands trying to write themselves a resume or Christian guys trying to say their little office in a strip mall between Teriyaki Time and Tattoo Alley was “Lousiana Baptist University”. Now Wikipedia is twice as big, which only means the cleaning crew is falling behind.

Doug says I’m buying this FSB astroturf “hook line and sinker” but who was the first ones to advance into South Ossetia under arms? Wasn’t Russia. The only thing that pissed Bush off was the overshoot past South Ossetia, when it looked like Russia was going to take the whole country. Putin seemed to be genuinely dismayed by the US flying the Georgian troops back home, it looked like we were taking sides. We got the Pooty Pout. Bush’s message to him was “stop”. Not “please stop”. So Putin’s got his revenge for all the trash talk from the Georgian President, and now he’s dialing it all back a little bit. But soon he’s going to have bigger problems. The price of oil is crashing, and Russia’s oil production is off this year, despite the high prices of the first half of 2008, due to the flight of foreign investment from Putin’s kleptocracy, which will only accelerate after this little “wag the dog” tussle. As soon as the South Ossetia affair fades into history, the Russian people are going to realize their standard of living is declining again, and there’s a bunch of Putin crony billionaires running around moving their oil wealth to foreign banks rather than recycling it back into the economy. And therefore the Kremlin might want to keep those tanks closer to home.