A Roster Fills ?
( A Roster Fills ?) A start today mentioning President Biden's visit to El Paso and if that is a sincere gesture, and a previous entry cast that in doubt, then Potemkin had nothing on his "village." If one remembers, during the Reign of "Russia's" Catherine the Great, the lives of the average peasant had been Hobbesian nasty, brutish and short. To mitigate those appearances, one of her Majesty's ministers, also one of her many lovers, Gregori Potemkin, had constructed certain fa çades, fake store fronts that mis-represented the conditions that most Russians lived under. So, when the Royal entourage were making a tour, it were these fa çades that were presented to the Empress. Now, Catherine the Great was not one to be na ïve enough to accept these Potemkin Villages as the true representation of conditions within the Empire but she was entirely willing to accept the illusion, the best face on things. President Biden in El Paso to see this version of a Pot...