My own favorite journalistic euphemism is still Small Farms Disappearing In Tennessee.

But I can't equate the actions of any power regime in which people are relatively free to express their thoughts to any power regimes in which people are decidedly not, just for the sake of a little lame fake irony. Yeah! Why do people say they "clean" fish?

    Well. For one thing, there may be small kids in the room when grown-ups want to watch the goddamn cocksucking news of what's going on in the fucking shitty old world, and thanks for thinking of that, somebody. Thanks for putting up a buffer so a parent can explain as as best they can as much as they see fit to their own kids. Grown-ups with their George Carlin wisdom think they're the only people in the world.

Things that are not the same, still are not the same, whether or not you can make fun of it in terms of us good guys and dem bad guys. Some things and some guys are pretty motherfucking bad indeed. Despite how mixed the motives may be in "taking somebody out", I'd still probably shoot in the face, decapitate, or just cut the head off of, gut and clean like a fish, "field dress", fry in a skillet with onions, whatever you want to call it, a few Very Important Persons in the world, myself, with my bare hands, if it came to it, and if I could, newspeak euphemisms, or none.

    I don't know much about security or military issues, and I'd rather there were no wars, all I can do is hope things turn out for the better, but I'd also rather people be able to sing write and say what they want to, and not be mutilated their whole lives. I give a good rat's ass about power posed as culture, here or there. Sorry for the tirade, y'all but I needed it.