So... I finally broke down and got a public blog. Bite me. If Nigel can have one, so can I. Besides, Blogger is the lesser of many evils. It's run by Google, anyway. Which, despite becoming disturbingly more and more like Microsoft, is still a bastion of goodness to many.

Anyway, despite this being the opening post, it's also one with some reason. This post was the proverbial mint that exploded poor Mr. Creosote. It's at once horrific and disgusting. Right up there with Abu Ghraib. I can certainly understand that war is terrifying and mentally scarring, but to glorify and foist it up as some vaunted deed is simply horrible. Even worse are some of the comments along with the photos. That there are people that base who are voting is frightening. Xenophobia has been taken to a new low. Life is life; I don't care whose it was. War is by it's very nature brutal, yes. People will die, that much is obvious. But does it really need to be elevated to such an exalted position? When you have people in positions of power referring to Muslims as diaperheads, and a megalomaniacal jingoistic leader whose only platform seems to be the hostile takeover of the world, perhaps its no wonder that events like this take place.