As a former college swimmer, triathlons always seemed rather unfairly tilted towards the bikers and runners. Not that I could have ever finished one regardless.

Batman is a service.

The guy who I originally replied to is now dead and gone. It's time to move on.

No, they said exactly that. And then they tried to argue that they were right to say that. It was dumb and I'm sad that I wasted a tiny part of my weekend on it.

The US is about as accountant for Putin as the enneagram is a valid model of personality.

The Russian oligarchy has a very specific history and centralized power structure. And Putin's rise to power was very much an inside deal with Yeltsin and other former Soviet power brokers. They didn't need any help from the west.

They did that with the first sentence. My question pertained to the second sentence. I was just wondering what American billionaires would possibly fall under the definition of a Russian oligarch. Maybe there are some, but that would be news to me. I'm just not aware of any Americans who made their fortunes by privatizing former Soviet state owned industries.

What American billionaires would you argue are part of Putin's inner circle and made they're fortunes by taking private ownership of former Soviet industries?