Yet of course some of the crap happening today started because of that dynamic. Iran, Iraq, Osama all played both sides like fools.

The red flags went up for me years ago when Shell (for whatever reason) mailed me a full blown magazine of how they were developing synthetic lubricants requiring 0% crude for all refined petroleum products. If they succeed at this, does anyone really think they could care less about what’s under the sand in the Persian Gulf.

I gave up on the news a long time ago. The Onion contains about the same qualitative journalistic value yet is much funnier.