Ugh, the relish went waay off.

I screwed that up big time, and I think I know what I did wrong and am not asking for advice. (It WAS pretty interesting, though. Opened it up to burp it, and it started bubbling out all over me like a shaken soda. So I moved to the sink, and then found that I couldn't push down the grated squash with my ceramic knife, there was too much pressure in the brine underneath.)

But yeah. Dumped the whole thing out. Jenn wants me to pickle some beets. I may do that, or I may pickle some turnips. With mint.

But this is not why I am posting. I am posting to share this: Gul Dukat pictures + Zapp Brannigan quotes. I haven't read the news yet, and I have no other links of any interest, but I just couldn't wait until the morning to share that.

(Well, okay, there may be ONE more link: Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms)

So many people seem to be surprised about Turkey bombing the PKK

I don't get it. The PKK has been active pretty much my entire life. Turkey isn't going to forget that just because they've got ISIS knocking at the door. I know we say the enemy of your enemy is your friend, but in real life terms sharing an enemy doesn't actually make us all one big happy family. It makes us, at best, a highly dysfunctional family "celebrating" the world's shittiest Thanksgiving.

Sometimes I look at current events, and I'm reminded of the popular conception of WWI. (No surprise there, given that a. we're now at 100 years since the start of the war and b. an insane amount of shit is going on that probably relates to how the borders were redrawn at the end of that conflict.) People talk about WWI, and the image in your mind is that the world's population just kinda sleepwalked fatalistically into war because they couldn't quite summon the energy to hop off the tracks. This probably isn't true, but that's the picture. In that view of history, they must have been almost grateful when war was declared, because at least they didn't have to wait anymore.

So I look at current events, and it's the same thing. ISIS murders people in Turkey. In retaliation, the PKK kills two soldiers, so Turkey bombs them right back, and at every step I'm sitting there going "You people know how stupid this is, right? Seriously, how is this supposed to help?"