The New York Crank: Even if the Gulf of Oman incident was too clumsily staged to serve as a pretext for war with Iran, whoever was behind it will likely try again.

News Corpse: Trump's getting a tidal wave of bad polling news -- even on Fox.

Juan Cole: Pompeo is so hopelessly clueless about Iran, he thinks the Taliban might be acting as its surrogate.

Big Bad Bald Bastard: The problem with toxic masculinity is the toxicity, not the masculinity.

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