I wrote the other day– I’m not going to link to it, it was literally two or three days ago; I have faith in your ability to find it– that I was generally pro-expertise in all areas but that I didn’t feel it was strictly necessary to be an “expert” in anything beyond basic biology and physics to have a decent idea of what happened to the Titan submersible, and as it turns out more or less everything I thought had happened in that situation had, in fact, happened.

Over the course of the last 48 hours there has been what appears to be an attempted coup in Russia, and I am staying so far away from commenting on that that you can’t even see it from here. I know nothing relevant to Russian politics other than a tenuous grasp on the geography and the names of a few of the major players, which is to say I know nothing at all, I have no comment, and I really don’t even know who to recommend that might count as authoritative. So if you were wondering where my line was, apparently “international politics” is it.