Beer And Conversation With Pigweed And Crowhill

The boys drink a "Patuxent Walnut," and then discuss three recent news items.  Pelosi goes to Taiwan. It was a ballsy move on her part. China stomped around, red-faced and furious, and threatened to shoot down her plane. But she went anyway. Was that right, or will she be the match that starts WW3?  P&C discuss the U.S.-Taiwan relationship in general, and tie it in with Pelosi's visit and Biden's recent bumbles about the U.S. defending the island against Chinese aggression.  Griner goes to jail. The 6'9" basketball star went to Russia with a small amount of marijuana, gets arrested, and has become a pawn in "prison exchange" negotiations.  She's not the only U.S. citizen who's been arrested in Russia for drug possession. Mark Fogel, a former U.S. embassy official, was arrested for possession of 17 grams of marijuana -- for which he had a prescription! But nobody says much about Fogel because he doesn't have star privilege.  The FBI goes to Mar-a-Lago. On its face, this looks like