Non-USians, please try to be kind to your gringo friends* at this time.
I cannot impress upon you how mind-bending it is that any day, we're likely to wake up to the news that our country is at war, and we are genuinely, unironically going to have to ask:
"with whom?"
This Iran stuff is just bonkers. Reza Pahlavi has just started popping up on TV, all tanned, rested and ready to become the next Shah.
As if a bunch of student protesters are going to want to overthrow the Islamic Republic, at significant cost to themselves, just so we can roll in and reinstall a puppet government.
I am not sure exactly how “let’s go get tacos, guey” at 11:30pm became a thing that I, An Old, get to do, but I’m now going to bed full of al pastor. And as a bonus, I have also now driven a stick shift across the cobblestones here, to the amusement/terror of my friend who thought it’d be fun to try.
