Rany on Osama and Obama

Nate Silver's wildly popular blog, fivethirtyeight, features an in-depth guest post by Royals Nation's favorite writer/dermatologist/Muslim today. The topic is the likelihood of an October surprise from Osama bin Laden:

When bin Laden declared war on the United States, it was in the hope that the United States would declare war in return – not just on him, but on the entire Muslim world. He wanted war, the bigger and more protracted the better. He wanted the Clash of Civilizations. He wanted, in a very literal sense, The End of Days. He didn’t have the firepower or resources to trigger the apocalypse himself, so he baited someone who did – the United States of America.

Basically, Rany thinks Osama wants McCain to win, just like Osama wanted Bush to win four years ago, because Osama wants war to continue until we reach the apocalypse. The best way for Osama to get his way, of course, is by telling the world that he's for Obama right before the election. Read the entire thing here.

P.S. A New York erotic magazine wants to publish this painting. They also wanted to feature more of our art work in a gallery. We were forced to tell them that we have no training and that we live in the Ozarks and that we've still only painted two boob pictures, that both of them were painted on scrap pieces of old cardboard with cheap watercolors, and that one of them's not very good anyway. They encouraged us to paint more. They must think we are some kind of idiot savant.

P.P.S. The whole thing with the New York erotic magazine has inspired us (ironically?) to go back to work on a children's story we keep threatening to write. Our friend Rob, who really should post here, came up with the title: "The Unpredictable Adventures of Bi-Polar Bear."