The Return of the Sword of Domekles

My mother told me about an article in the Gazet van Antwerpen that mentioned this. Not being very good at reading Flemish I went searching for other sources...

Terrorist organizations also have joined the nuclear procurement game, though perhaps not on a sustained level. A 1998 U.S. federal indictment charges that Osama bin Laden and his associates have tried to buy bomb-making components "at various times" since 1992.

Quoted from this NYU "Global Beat" article published April 27, 2001.

The complexity of what is happening

OK, this glosses over a lot of stuff and is by no means the whole picture, but it isn't really intended to be. This is a very simplified, not-to-scale, timeline intended to show some of the complexity and historical context for what is going on at the moment. This is all straight out of my head and I didn't verify anything, so forgive me if I have made a mistake or two.

Waiting for the elf to phone

She should be done putting the elflings to sleep any minute.

Sigh

Yup. That's about it.

A couple of fun pictures of me

Blue Atratus - photo by SmartPatrol

Red Atratus - photo by SmartPatrol