I met a very nice lady from Russia after the Mariners game at a downtown sports bar. This is her website. She’s trying to encourage western tourism to her old hometown of Kislovodsk, an obscure resort city in the Caucases. If you’re not planning an overseas vacation this year, she’s also trying to sell hair-care products on the site.

Please do not laugh at her English language skills. That would be cruel to someone who’s trying to make it in an often cruel nation; who’s currently supporting herself via one of the cruelest jobs imaginable (telemarketing for Time-Life Books).

AMERICAN POLITICS EXPLAINED: Democrats want the world to be more like college. Republicans want the world to be more like high school. The latter wish is currently winning.