This Blogger respects Russians; as Frederick the Great stated :” It takes two bullets to take a Russian soldier out; one to kill him and one to  stop him.” This Blogger   likes Russians; even though once, in Moscow, during the Soviet era, his incredibly attractive tour guide, aka KGB agent, told him and his brother   that they were in danger of being hit, fatally, by a Soviet car crossing a Moscow street. T his Blogger’s brother told her that he had ridden in a Soviet Car, the LADA; and that he could damn well survive any hit by that piece of junk. She laughed. That night, this Blogger’s brother slept in his room, under his bed, drunk. This Blogger admires the way Russians do business; when Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in Lebanon, the KGB paid the ransoms immediately, without complaint. Shortly thereafter, Beirut was flooded with Soviet agents and Soviet bribes; the kidnappers were identified. They were abducted, tortured and  castrated; their d...

There is a cabal of Readers of this Blog who are redundant in their annoyance; they have annoyingly lobbied for the MAXEY CHRONICLES to read and review the book HARD CHOICES by Hillary Clinton. To that end, they even sent this  Blogger a copy of said book.  This Blogger attempted to read HARD CHOICES but failed to finish HARD CHOICES. HARD CHOICES commits the sin of being self serving, sobeit, a lot of biographies are self serving. What is worse, HARD CHOICES makes the mistake of being BORING. How boring is it? MOBY DICK is livelier; in truth reading everything you never wanted to know about whales in MOBY DICK is livelier than reading HARD CHOICES. When this Blogger conveyed his failure to finish the book to his annoying Readers, they asked for a compensatory Blog, a prognostication on the viability of Madame Clinton’s preordained Presidency. The odds of Madame Clinton winning the Democratic Party’s nomination for President are 90% to 10%. The odds of M...