Monday Miscellany!

• It's starting to look like the Obama administration just plain made up the gas attacks in Syria. Meaning, if not for Russia and China applying international pressure, Obama would very likely have pushed us into an optional war. Justin Raimondo has more here.


• Netanyahu is using the prospect of peace with Iran as an excuse to continue the slow genocide of the Palestinians.


• Meanwhile, the prospect of peace with Iran is shrinking.


• It should surprise precisely nobody that the NSA has massively infiltrated most online games. Of course, Slashdot has a discussion.


• People hate creative thinkers, but they love the benefits of creative thinking. I've found a few exceptions: improv troupes, underground cultures, and so on. And those stagnate sooner or later.