You can’t make this up.Fossil FoolsWhile attending the United Nations’ COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, a New York Times reporter decided to engage in a time-honored local custom of bathing his entire nude body in crude oil.As the newspaper reports, the same oil that fueled the Soviet victory over the Nazis had led the Eastern European country to petrostate status — though its reserves differ from those in the rest of the world, because it doesn’t burn the skin and has alleged healing properties.As NYT Moscow bureau chief Anton Troianovski notes…
