Балота is the Belorusian word for swamp. Maybe he got confused. In addition to being an expert on everything else, MSW is an expert on Slavic languages.

He's a real Rennaisance Man, or as they say in Belorusian, a Універсальны чалавек. Or is that supposed to be in the accusative case? Maybe Slavic language expert MSW can let me know. I just looked it up on google and wikipedia.