DARK STREETS

Someone on Facebook de-friended me over the Iran War. Which isn't a war, and which we won seven times already. He seems convinced that this war which isn't a war but merely an excursion that opened the Straights of Hormuz, not that they were closed, is about bringing civilization back to Persia and preventing the execution of women. And about genocide.

A gentle reminder to everyone: this war has nothing to do with human rights in Iran, the killing of protestors, or silent executions. Nothing. It's about ambitions, egos, and opportunism. Coupled with massive stupidity.

And also, me calling it "Meltdown Boy's War" is NOT funny.

I'm thinking of copyrighting that term.


He has seemingly forgotten that both he and I have alternatives for the times when Facebook locks our accounts because we said something totally reprehensible that some programmed South Asian droodge thought went against community standards.
So, um, I know what he's thinking. All of me do.

Not that I will remind him of that.

He is younger than myself and grew up in the era of social media. I was around before social media was invented. And I suspect he's failing at it. Many people are.
Don't worry, there won't be a test.



The latest news is that we won the war, or didn't. Sources aren't clear about that, neither is our president. The Straight of Hormuz, which we are thinking of renaming as the Straight of America, is open again. Closed. Totally open, and blocked tighter than the Vice President's couch. Nobody has ever seen it blocked so much. But open while blocked.
Why, it's the greatest blocking ever. Huge.


There are stll parts of this country where they don't know where the Straights are. They're probably near Russia or China, Atlantic or something, and we'll win this war as easily as Vietnam or Afhanistan. Iraq. And that's where our hamsters come from.
Everybody loves hamsters. So we're the greatest.
Yay, team!



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