Or, as the Onion put it, is it time to just start calling it just Middle East Culture? With Poland pulling out in aught-five, it seems like no one wants to be in that part of the world except for some theocrats, oil sultans, and the supplicants thereof. Where are my fuel cells, already?

As a small aside, some inmate friends of mine who saw Matt and Liz visiting, but couldn't see my parents and brother due to obscured sightlines, thought that I was Matt and Liz's adopted son.