As an editor of progarchy.com, I have absolutely no right to publish this.  In fact, when the four founders of progarchy created the thing–almost exactly 2 years ago–we decided to avoid as much as possible the topics of politics and religion.  Each of us is a writer, and we spend way too much of our professional lives “talking” politics and religion to let either seep into our leisure activities.

But, here I am, breaking a cardinal rule.

I’m so, so sick of war.  I just recently turned 47, and almost all of my adulthood has seen my own country involved in some kind of war–here, there, everywhere.

My home country, the grand republic of the United States of America?  Well, we create and sell nearly 70% of the arms that exist in the world, and we have troops stationed (at various levels) in 150 out of nearly 200 countries.  What began as a noble experiment has been corrupted, abused, and destroyed from our own so-called leaders.  Bastards all.

In particular, I offer the nastiest gesture I can think of to the last four presidential administrations.