The difference between "wth" and "wtf" I decided to express my slightly more than usual concern with the recent turn of events in the Middle East, which has genuinely got me a little worried now that Israel is on the brink of war with Hezbollah. The fact that this violence is now no longer between just Israel and Palestine, but has spread to include Lebannon, draws a higher probability for the violence to escalate into a full-scale war. With Iran fanning the flames, the Middle East is quickly becoming fertile ground for Palestine and Lebannon to draw allies against Israel. And naturally, Israel draws in their own ally, America...

If my memory of history lessons serves me correct, both World Wars started by the death of just one man. And now an Israeli soldier was kidnapped (2 killed), triggering the massive attack by the Israeli army on Palestinian infrastructure. Throw in a rogue imperialistic country like North Korea just itching to launch more missiles, and we've got the ingredients for WW3. This is all deep speculation of course. And I sincerely hope that my worries are nothing more than paranoia.

Given that one might be reading today's headlines thinking "what the hell?!" at pictures of Beirut on fire... I thought something even more un-nerving should warrant the F word (no, not that stupid Gordon Ramsay cooking pig-killing swearing show). Jon Stewart presents a (yet another) clip of George Bush who clearly misses the gravity of the situation in Israel.

"I am going to go watch "24" now and pretend that imaginary president is in charge." - Anonymous @ Onegoodmove.org  ¶ posted by Jon at 7/15/2006