Thursday Miscellany!

Because it's Thursday Thursday Thursday....

• Last week Turkey agreed to let us use their air bases to bomb ISIS. This week Turkey has started bombing the Kurdish faction PKK. (This is almost certainly not a coincidence, and it tells us what Washington traded for those air bases.) By bombing the PKK, Turkey unilaterally ended a two year cease fire and leading to PKK retaliation. By the way, PKK was also fighting ISIS. Thus Turkey is now fighting two separate battles, and the Syrian Civil War becomes the biggest clusterfuck since the Thirty Years' War.


• Rumsfeld finally admits that Bush was wrong on trying to turn Iraq into a democratic state, thus, in a sense, repudiating one of the big arguments in support of the Iraq war. Still no word on whether Bush or anyone else admits they were wrong about invading Iraq in the first place.


• Justin Raimondo thoroughly skewers Rand Paul.


• Amnesty International declares that Israel's 2014 bombing of Gaza was a war crime. Get the full report in PDF form here.


• This analysis of why eventually electric cars will take over is riddled with problems. Problem number one: how do you charge your car overnight if you don't have a dedicated place to park, or one that's at least close to an outlet? Back when I was a Howard Dean fanboy, SC and I lived in an apartment complex with one (1) space for both of us. My parking space was a block away. See the problem? Never mind that the complex was a shithole such that running an extension cord to my car would be an invitation for some tweaker to steal my extension cord. I think you can address the issues by coming up with other solutions (such as charging at the gas stations the author thinks will go out of business), but man, this guy needs to check his privilege.


• SC on the making of Signum Adventit, a new wood block print available exclusively through the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Kickstarter Page. Seven days left! Reserve yours now!