Yet Another Example of How Patriarchy and War Go Hand-in-Hand

Silly Russians. They're even sillier than the Americans. Let's make big, big, big bombs! The Americans' Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) is meant to kill and destroy hundreds of soldiers and tanks at once (as if battlefields even exist anymore). The Russians' Dad of All Bombs is four times more powerful than the Americans'. According to a deputy chief in the Russian military, "it is meant to "protect the nation's security and confront international terrorism in any situation and any region." So when the Chechens take over another theater, instead of gassing everyone to death, the Russians can just blow up the entire town.

I honor those who died by reaming out those who lied.

Six years ago today, medieval assholes killed many people in the United States. This lead to a subsequent (largely vengeful) killing spree in which even more people - outside of the United States - died. And it led to one of the most counter-intuitive and mind-numbingly anti-intellectual foreign policy initiatives in the history of the modern world.

Goddamn, how I deplore fundamentalism.

By the way, I love Naomi Klein. I need to get her new book, which has a "trailer."

What is Iran?

My friend Walt passed this along. When you think of Iran, do you envision burqas and loud populists with chips on their shoulders? Too bad, that's the wrong answer.

Check out what Iran truly is, and the implications of war upon their society.