In a World Filled With War and Strife.....

... there are the usual inanities to fret about.

First, the species known as "Assholus Parkerii". This particular specimen took up four spaces for his duallie:

I wonder when he'll realize that not having fenders over the outboard wheels will mean that he's going to spray the side of his shiny truck with mud and shit every time he goes for a drive when the road isn't bone-dry. My guess is that it's an after-market mod. And of course, no mud flaps, because if he doesn't care about spewing mud all over his truck, he's not going to give a shit about spraying it all over yours.

Second up, a new movie: Riddick, a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick, a movie that did so well that it took them nine years to try again (and was itself a sequel to Pitch Black, which might have been marginally profitable.) One reason for the nine-year gap was that Chronicles barely avoided being a flop, just making back its production budget.

I gather that Riddick is popular with SciFi gamers, but I kind of doubt that there are enough of them to obsessively see this movie enough times for it to make any real money. Vin Diesel, as an actor, seems to pretty much play one character in every movie I've seen. Nothing wrong with that, if you can pull it off, John Wayne did, but Diesel ain't the Duke.

(As for Syria, well, I suspect that cake is baked.)