However, I can still tell that the person doing annual property inventory really, really, really needs to start using deoderant. Ack.

Syria has me stumped. You've got the Assad supported by Russia and Iran (I believe mostly through working through Hezbollah) on the one side, the moderate Syrian rebels on the other side supported by the United States and Saudi Arabia and Jordan, ISIS on the other other side not really supported by anyone, and the Kurds on the other other other side also supported by the United States.

We want to defeat ISIS, but we don't want to get ground troops involved because that has clusterfuck written all over it in 128pt Helvetica. However the moderate Syrian rebels don't seem interested in fighting ISIS, they want to fight Assad. Assad doesn't seem interested either, he wants to fight the moderate Syrian rebels. Russia doesn't seem interested either, they want to support Assad. Same seems to be true with Iran. The Iraq army outnumbers ISIS massively, but they don't seem especially interested in fighting ISIS either. Meanwhile the Kurds have been fighting ISIS, but our ally, Turkey, wants to fight the Kurds and the Kurds aren't large enough to really deal with ISIS by themselves anyhow. Meanwhile we're bombing ISIS, but that isn't going to be very effective unless we decide to tolerate massive civilian causalities which would probably create a lot more anti-crusader resentment in the region, leading to more terrorism.

Of course that may be the easy part because stability needs to be achieved and the U.S. goal is to establish a pro-western secular democracy by supporting the moderate Syrian rebels who are not cohesive enough to be called something other than the moderate Syrian rebels.

What the hell do you do with that?

I'm starting to think the best answer is to just tell Russia, hey, you want to own this shitshow, you go ahead and own it. We'll just put a fraction of the money we'd spend on military action for humanitarian aid and resettlement of refugees and you guys can be left holding the bag of regrettable middle-east policy.

There are also the Syrian Turkmen, supported by Turkey against Assad, ISIS AND the Kurds.

Oops. Overlooked that other other other other side.

I don't think I'm going to make it through a full day of work. My head is trying to kill me.

Ditto, but because people at work are trying to make my head explode

Jesus, now today is Giving Tuesday? Leave me alone, days of the week!

(Nobody tell Dana about tomorrow!)

Good luck with your heads sarameg and Lee!

I saw Inside Out and Jurassic World this weekend. Two movies in one weekend is pretty rare for me. Anyhow, I liked Inside Out pretty well, but man Jurassic World was disappointing. It just felt flat. I mean they sucked all the charisma out of Chris Pratt. How do you even do that?

Should be Weekend Tuesday.

Oh noes my 3-month calendar has run out of months and I haven't gotten a new one!

Oh, my god, what is tomorrow? Unless it's Stay in Your Pajamas Day, I'm against it.