[aanet]

Apropos of nothing in particular, back in the previous millennium, UNIX (and Linux) had the `fortune` command. It would spew out a "cookie" - a pithy one-/two-liner, usually funny, often thought-provoking, and sometimes offensive (when invoked with `fortune -o`)

I had added it to my `motd`; it would give me a chuckle every time I logged in.

One of the cookies I recall:

A nuclear war can ruin your whole day. [1]

And that's what I think of when I see this absurd new war.

[1] http://fortunes.pbworks.com/w/page/14107138/politics