Usual Putin-haters have field day politicizing MH17 tragedy

The bodies of those 298 unfortunates had hardly hit the ground before Canadian PM Harper issued a statement blaming Russia. No evidence? No problem!... using 298 tragic deaths as a cudgel to bash Putin doesn't require evidence, merely an appalling level of cynical opportunism.

By Saturday the pretend "punk rocker" and professional Putin critic Masha Alekhina had an article in The Guardian likewise holding Putin to account using the same evidence Harper had, which is to say none.

And in a brazen feat of journalistic one-up-man-ship, The New Yorker was able to reveal today that no less an authority than U.S. VP Biden concluded that Putin has no soul!

In these days of hypocritical moral outrage we would do well to recall another moral outrage, the shooting down of Iran Air 655 by the US Navy in 1988.

That wasn't a mistake by ill-trained hooligan militiamen or semi-literate hastily conscripted regulars, it was a deliberate attack on a civilian airliner by the most powerful military in the world.

The U.S. VP of the time, one George Bush, remarked that he would never apologize, and no senior American politician ever has.

Putin has been downright civil and gracious in comparison.

Pussy Riot and the breakfast of anti-establishment champions

They say breakfast is the most important meal. It's the one that kick-starts the body's various systems and makes it possible to triumph over whatever challenges the new day may bring.

That's why world class anti-establishment activists like Pussy Riot prefer to start their day with breakfast at McDonalds.

Yup, no iffy local cuisine for these gals. Only the best American multinational hormone-laden industrially-farmed animal products will suffice for these A-listers.

Other than the breakfast at McDonalds part, this story sounds like yet another publicity stunt from the dedicated anti-establishment activists of Pussy Riot.