I sense a great disturbance in the Force

I've done little more on here in the past few days than dilly-dally in pop cultural obscurities, mostly for the sake of distraction. Gawking at the sometimes bizarre foibles of public figures is good for a cheap yuk, in the very least. Good clean fun.

But sometimes your televised opiate runs headlong into your political reality, and you have to deal with that reality.

But how do you deal with such brutality?

Or those who would cheerlead us all into mass murder?

Or those who believe that the violence is hastening the Second Coming?

Or that these doofuses have squandered lives, treasure, and moral authority (that may have been useful in stopping this new round of bloodshed) on an eclipsed, but bloodier war in Iraq?

I can't think of a goddamned thing to say about what's happening in the Middle East. What could I possibly say that would make any sense of this situation?

There just doesn't seem to be a good ending coming to any of this any time soon.