Talking Bag

REPUBLICANS DON’T WANT TO KNOW COSTS OF U.S. NUCLEAR ARSENAL

(The Intercept Article)

Report Reveals $8.5 Trillion Missing From Pentagon Budget
(Crooks & Liars posting and links)

Giving blank checks to the Military-Industrial Complex isn't simply a bad idea, it might just be the worst idea. 

Although sadly, once you weigh in on other horrible decisions we've made as a species, dumping plastic in the ocean for example (More plastic than fish in sea by 2050), the argument that intelligence is the all-time worst mutation to have ever occurred on Earth becomes hard to deny.

And then again, how smart is a parasite that destroys its host?