Ankh MautaBoard

http://www.theonion.com/articles/deformed-freak-born-without-penis,34732/

http://i.imgur.com/6mcCFsN.jpg

Terry also part of the PCMR.

Nature-spirits wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/11474455/Terry-Pratchett-will-live-on-in-the-clacks-thanks-to-fans-programming-code.html

Immortality is for plebeians. Cool guys have HTML.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-worried-about-living-up-to-netanyahu-campaign-p,38248/

Nightkill the emperor wrote:

There's a town called Texarkana, named that because it's on the border of TEXas, ARKansas and LouisANA.

Creative name.

It's decently famous, though I'd never known why it was called that.

I honestly have no idea on this one. The mess of factors is bewildering.

On the one hand, the Saudis are cold geopolitical players (responsible for horrific crimes) who are only doing this because they don't want an Iranian-backed state on their southern border. On the other hand, that is actually a reasonable national security objective.

On the one hand, the Saudi coalition includes a whole bunch of strategic players in the Middle East, including some (Morocco, Jordan) that are beacons of relative sanity. On the other hand, most of the other coalition governments are despots of various stripes who are out to protect one of their own (because Hadi's democratic credentials are essentially nonexistent).

On the one hand, the Houthis are extremists hostile both to American interests and to basic norms of human rights, whose rise has been bloody enough to radicalize many Sunnis into siding with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. On the other hand, by that same token, any intervention against the Houthis is likely to strengthen AQAP - and may hand al-Zawahiri control of Yemen. Given the power of ISIL, there's an argument to be made that it's less risky to tolerate a gang of Shiite thugs than it is to empower a gang of Sunni thugs.

Bottom line: Yemen has never been a functional state. Saada has never and likely will never accept rule by outsiders, for reasons that run deeper even than the sectarian divide. The south is merely biding its time until its next revolt; the independence movement is strong in Aden, and seems likely to remain so. The east is barren desert.

That leaves Sana'a and the surrounding areas in the center of the country as the only zone that has any stake in a Yemeni state. The mistake in dealing with Yemen has been to treat this middle zone as a center of gravity, and to assume that control of it gives the north or the south an incentive to preserve Yemeni unity. In reality, this central zone is a red herring that makes a Yemeni state seem more viable than it really is. The Houthis don't want a Yemeni state, they want a Shiite state - borders are less important. And the south wants nothing to do with Sana'a at all. The capital is not a lynchpin. It's a liability.

So the short answer is that I have no idea how to deal with this situation, because for the life of me, I cannot see a single possible positive outcome on the horizon, no matter what the United States does. That may be bleak, but I think it's true, and that's all I can offer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/27/pakistans-long-history-of-fighting-saudi-arabias-wars/

Our neighbours to the West are likely going to get involved.

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/watch-barack-obama-and-the-wire-creator-talk-criminal-justice-reform-20150327

By the way, if you haven't seen The Wire, incredible show.

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/24/8283199/gun-control-comedy-jefferies

Agritum wrote:

The only safe thing you could do right now is helping to set up the refugee camps for what's going to happen.

You, meanwhile, are f*cked.

Enjoy refugees, assholes!

Nightkill the emperor wrote:

April Fools is tomorrow.

I don't know what's going to happen and frankly can't give a sh*t.

I'm far too f*cking busy.

And in honour of Trevor Noah, I'll be watching You Laugh But It's True.

It's quiet. Perhaps too quiet.