I use *Killfile* for a reason.

Anyways, I am deciding between reading "On the Beach" by Nevil Chute, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," or a Dorothy Sayers mystery.

So to decide, I'll flip my three-sided coin.

Too many books, not enough time.

Iran is a country of 93m people with an experienced military and security apparatus, heirs to the Savak and therefore CIA-trained.

The Iranians became expert at asymmetric warfare operations and hence their success against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Iran is ranked 16 out of 145 countries in the Global Firepower Index (GFI).

Iran is a top ten global producer of oil and natural gas.

Oil-poor Israel of 10m people (7.7m Israeli Jews) is ranked 15.

Regarding US military morale in this quagmire which is bankrupting the US Treasury and further depriving Americans of inching closer to universal healthcare as enjoyed by Israelis, Germans, Spaniards, Canadians, 95% of Iranians, Cubans, Greenlanders, Albanians, and in 2027, Mexicans, from the Interweb:

"US military morale is reportedly extremely low following a 40-day war against Iran that ended in a ceasefire.

Active-duty US personnel have expressed disillusionment with the Trumpf junta's war strategy and its perceived lack of purpose other than helping Israel.

Troops are concerned that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has emerged from the conflict with more regional control than before.

The 40-day military campaign is described as a strategic failure that effectively backfired against US interests."

"Ichorous"

Hah!

"Iranian negotiators believed Witkoff and Kushner were more interested in trying to profit off the talks in financial markets than reaching a lasting agreement."

One side acting in good faith -- the "detestable" Iranians -- and the other side acting like voracious capitalist vultures.

And Steve Witkoff -- Dummkopf Trumpf's Special Peace Envoy -- called the two million Palestinians in Gaza Nazis.

So this good-for-no-one mega-oligarch is "neutral" in the negotiations between the underdog Palestinians and the US-armed Israeli Death Forces (IDF)?

Uh-huh.

Hi again Doc Sarvis:

There are plenty of "detestable" regimes in the world -- including the Trumpf junta -- but the US is not attacking them: North Korea, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan.

When the shooting occured at the White House Press Corps Dinner earlier this year, Kashyap "I'll Have The Vindaloo Chicken" Patel was caught on video wandering around outside the hotel like a bewildered by-stander, eyes all agog and wits nowhere to be found.

Did anyone catch what planet Kashyap said he was from?

Maybe RedLightRobot's heliograph might offer us all a clue.

Thanks for that awful imagery, Doc Sarvis! Now I must burn out my mind's eye with my morning coffee and smoke.

BTW: Last century when I was working at the NYC bookstore, like you, I had to tear the covers off paperbacks to get a refund for the unsold copies. I could keep any ruined book.

But I didn't have the heart to tear the gilded cover off The Jackal Helix by Gloria Vitanza Basile, so I dropped a shekel or two on it and kept this paperback for over three decades.

Her espionage/conspiracy tome was not too bad and this may have been a "one-hit wonder" for this authoress.

"Although the plans were analyzed, Trumpf junta apparatchiks acknowledged that military action against Cuba is unlikely in the short term, as much of America's offensive capabilities remain focused on the Middle East, where military operations against Iran on behalf of Israel resumed following the collapse of the ceasefire."

VPUTZ JD Vantz: "An amped up fighter told a joke after a fight. People say stuff all the time. I work in a business where, obviously, people make life-and-death decisions all the time. And I'm always a little bit caught off guard by the culture that just overreacts. The worst you could say is, Oh, that was an offensive comment,' and you get on with the rest of your life. That's the worst that you could say. The people who really flip out about it and kind of lose their minds -- I just don't understand that."

~snip~

JD Nonce "just doesn't understand that." Perhaps he should ask his dark-skinned Hindu Brahmin wife Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance why some people might be upset by that terrible joke about former FLOTUS Michele Obama.

Oligarchs Joe Rogaine and Bill Maher are two sides of the same filthy coin, making a Mammon-like fortune distracting the hoi polloi with nonsensical deflections and ribald humor -- distributing cultural Soma -- subtly defending the wealthy elites and the status quo like two media Judas Goats.

These two are certainly not on the economic side of "Joe Sixpack" or "Jane Vassar."

Blech!

D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel, the most incompetent FBI Director in inter-stellar history, personally led the hunt for the White House leakers.

Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-3rd CD): "Foreign adversaries can influence policy in Washington, DC without firing a single shot,' but rather infiltrating the minds of citizens nationwide."