Surgery Operations for all; Opiate export from Afghanistan continues apace

I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled at 11 AM. Jane Cat has a damaged right ear. Apparently poor thing got a hematoma, or a separation of skin & cartilage, as a consequence of an infection. Makes the ear go off to an angle.

So there will be no updates from me for a day or two. Perhaps one of our recent contributors might. Perhaps not. That is the nice thing about the internet, you don't really have to give a shit if you don't want to.

One of the nice things about tooth surgery is the Vicodin. Ironically, one of the nice things about the War on Terror is how it defeated the War on Drugs by making regional post-mujahideen warlords our key allies. And their primary industry is controlling and exporting the same varieties of opiates that I'm about to be awarded for my tooth surgery.

So I am putting up this totally sweet map of opium poppy cultivation, two years into the War on Terror. Note that the dark red sections are more than 50% opium cultivation. This is Freedom, everyone.

One of my favorite maps of all time:

More Afghanistan industry heroin tracking from the UNODC here. Big pimpin, spinnin cheese.