According to this report, Hillary Clinton “dropped a brick” (as the English say) when she met with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. She’d had her crack staff put together a joke red button that was supposed to have the word “Reset” printed on it in Russian.
Instead, the word inscribed on the item by the Best and Brightest was one that means “overloaded.”
OK, I’ll cop to it. It’s all my fault.
In their zeal for equal opportunity, the State Department chose not to hire an actual Russian interpreter for this translating exercise, because Russian speakers have an unfair and undemocratic lock on such jobs.
Instead, in a bold affirmative action move, they broke the glass ceiling by hiring a Norwegian translator instead. And that translator was me.
My bad.
The little video Phil posted below advertises a fantasy game set in a sort of imaginary Viking world.
One thing that caught my attention was that the hero wears one of those over-the-shoulder back scabbards.
Allow me to rant about those for a moment. Continue reading Bad buttons and shabby sheaths