Joseph Smith: my mythical Godhead is superior to yours, Gentile.

In the midst of the Israelis stopping a “relief” flotilla en route to Gaza – loaded for bear with armed agitators at best, and terrorists at worst – President Obama has yet another crisis on his hands that will challenge even his natural tendencies to split the differences and take the high road.

And let’s be honest why – the Middle East conflict is not one of right versus wrong, but merely two sides of the same religious asshole argument, a tiff that has cursed the planet for at least two millennia and is as likely to end in the foreseeable future as Lindsay Lohan is to get her shit together and stop acting like a white trash fuckup.

The CZ is not particularly religious – except for when Schmitty’s beloved Phillies contend for the pennant and/or World Series, or I experience the gleeful sight of Slavic teens between clubbed senseless for driving an Acura with tinted windows  – and while the Middle East drama is the most boring, played-out pedantic bullshit this side of an Alan Thicke sitcom, it’s entertaining to see virtually everyone sound off and take either side of the argument.

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