Sha la la la la la la. Or something.

My dad asked me to read an article he'd dowloaded from the Middle East Forum, the online version, I think, of the magazine Middle East Quarterly. The thrust of the article is that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a sponsor of terrorism and not an ally of the United States. Wow, that's a fucking revelation. Why is the obvious supposedly worth reading if it is dressed up in academic robes? Oh, well, at least it wasn't one of his anti-Muslim hate rags.

"I know no matter what, no matter who, no matter what I do, somebody hates me."
--Reel Big Fish, "Somebody Hates Me" from Why Do They Rock So Hard?