Constipated Russian internet finally unblocked!

Great! Those folks will be able to read my shit again!

Historically, Russia was for a long time the third biggest audience for this blog, after the USA and Canada. Six months ago there were a cumulative 40,000 plus page views from Russia. Ya, it's not NYT numbers, but not too shabby for a pot-addled hillbilly in Bruce County.

And then, nothing. As in I might get one page view from Russia every three weeks. Obviously somebody somewhere flipped a switch.

But why? I mean, we might take an occasional jab at Bad Vlad, but by and large we're pretty Putin friendly around here.  After all, he's the single most important road-block to the beltway wet-dream of a uni-polar world in perpetuity, and that's worth supporting.

I figure it must have been incompetent translators who missed the sarcasm and irony...

Anyway, welcome back, my Russian friends!

Putin blocks pot-addled hillbilly blogger from Russian internet

I can hardly imagine that Bad Vlad would do such a thing.


After all, we're pretty much Putin friendly in these parts.


According to official blogger.com stats, I've had 35,331 page views from Russia since I started this blog. That makes Russia my third largest audience after the US and Canada.


But in the past week there has not been a single page view originating in Russia.


That's gotta be Putin... unless it's the CIA.