What are Bad Idea jeans? The theme of a late 1990s SNL parody TV ad featuring snippets of conversations between five White 30-something dudes preparing to play basketball with five formidable looking Black men. All five White guys are wearing Bad Idea jeans and the snippets reveal they all completely lack common sense. For example:
Guy #3: Well, he’s an ex free-base addict, and he’s trying to turn around, and he needs a place to stay for a couple of months.
Guy #2: Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, “When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?”
Guy #5: I don’t know the guy, but I’ve got two kidneys and he needs one, so I figured...
Guy #4: Now that I have kids, I feel a lot better having a gun in the house.
So, why don’t we drop everything and move to Russia? On its Xtwitter page, the blatantly propagandistic Shared Valuevisa initiative-promoting "Russian Road" is devoted to heartwarming stories of foreigners who move to Russia and find Nirvana. It’s full of shiny happy people. The land of opportunity and morality. The land of Moloko and Med.
And it’s the land that made American Derek Huffman decide to put on his Bad Idea jeans.
Derek wanted to be free from liberal indoctrination and LGBT gender norms. He wanted to live somewhere with traditional values. But instead of moving to Salt Lake City, he put on his Bad Idea jeans, pulled up stakes from his Texazistan home and emigrated to Russia with his wife and three daughters—none of whom speak Russian.
The Huffman family smiling in front of the Magic Castle at Russia's Disneyland, Moscow.
What happened next? Derek joined the Russian Army following its assurance that he would receive a signing bonus and a job as a correspondent or mechanic posted far from the front lines and combat.
After signing, Derek was given one month of Russian language lessons then sent for only one week of military training near the front. He received his first month’s pay but was then charged 10,000 rubles for the equipment he was issued. He was not given his salary or signing bonus, and was sent directly to a combat unit to fight Ukrainians.
Bad Idea Jeans is an allegory for “from the frying pan into the fire.” Derek has too late learned what many of us already know: “The beets aren’t always redder on the other side of the kolkhoz.”
Remember Derek and his family whenever you’re tempted to put on those Bad Idea Jeans.
Poorly placed logo label looks like a gerbil is clawing its way out of a colon.
7/22/2025, 1:50 pm
jackalopelipsky
Being willing to bear arms to fight NAZIS in Ukraine is easier than voting in the Primary to defeat Senator John Cornyn’s reelection bid to keep Texas, Texazistan, forever, is sounding like a Bad Idea Jeans commercial
7/22/2025, 4:42 pm
Komissar al-Blogunov
Well, I'm down. According to Comrade Carlson, their supermarkets have bread.
7/23/2025, 5:43 pm
Comrade Jenkem
Russian MRE make one stronk like bear
7/25/2025, 12:11 pm
Red Zeppelin
Do I hear Annie Haslam singing "Mother Russia" in the background?
I saw her live once back in the '80s at the old Stone Balloon in Northern Bidenistan.
Speaking of the Stone Balloon, it was owned by "Dr" Jill's ex, who does not have very nice things to say about her or her current husband.
Do I hear Annie Haslam singing "Mother Russia" in the background?
I saw her live once back in the '80s at the old Stone Balloon in Northern Bidenistan.
I wrote her about ten years ago and she wrote me back. It was a very pleasant exchange. I admired her a lot in her early years with Renaissance. Nowadays she just does paintings and advocates for breast cancer survivors, of which she is one.
Do I hear Annie Haslam singing "Mother Russia" in the background?
I saw her live once back in the '80s at the old Stone Balloon in Northern Bidenistan.
I wrote her about ten years ago and she wrote me back. It was a very pleasant exchange. I admired her a lot in her early years with Renaissance. Nowadays she just does paintings and advocates for breast cancer survivors, of which she is one.
Here's the original, when they were in their prime. I saw Annie sing this live in NYC in 1974 and it was this perfect:
7/26/2025, 8:20 am
Red Zeppelin
Yes, we all are, “some very interesting comrades”…..kinda makes The Cube what it is, knowhatimsayin?
Regarding Annie, she’s somewhat local now…..living somewhere near Sellersville in Bucks County PA (M. Night Sham’s “Signs” country). Classy lady, to be sure, and an incredible vocalist.
(I’m 50 miles + to the south, in Northern Bidenistan - spent years working in King of Prussia, PA, so I call Bucks “local”).
Being an artistic sort (in fact Renaissance is one of the bands that DEFINES “Art Rock”, you’d expect her to be, “hard left” politically. Refreshingly, she is not.
Like I said, classy lady and an incredible talent.
