M.A. O’Grady is doing her typically excellent work on Latin America in the WSJ today, with an excellent piece on Chávez and his comrade Evo Morales (she didn’t mention the Hondurans’ snide move this week, though), which contains this gem apropos of the Russians’ bomber flight to Caracas.

What the Venezuelan [leader] did not mention was the fact that, according to a State Department official, “the U.S. Air Force picked up the Russian aircraft just west of Norway and escorted them all the way to Venezuela.”

Well done.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.