I’m happy to see that Nicholas is back to blogging again and his latest post on weathering the remaining years of the Administration is cheerfully acerbic. Welcome back.
Should you feel tempted to despair, remember, Leningrad held out for 900 days, never capitulating, with a lifeline consisting of nothing more than a bridge across a frozen lake. Truly inspiring. Of course, about a million people died of infectious disease and sheer starvation, and by 1944 there wasn’t a dog, cat, squirrel, chipmunk or rat anywhere to be seen.