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On the morn­ing of March 29, 2010, a pair of sui­cide bombers attacked two sub­way sta­tions in Moscow, killing forty peo­ple, injur­ing count­less oth­ers and fill­ing the city with an omi­nous sense of dread. While Rus­sia faced numer­ous attacks from insur­gents in the early 2000s, the gov­ern­ment had largely suc­ceeded in con­tain­ing the insur­gency. Until last week, that is. And with the rev­e­la­tion that the bombers were young women, one 28 and the other 17, the man­ner in which ter­ror­ists are viewed had changed. Time mag­a­zine ran an arti­cle the other day explain­ing the phe­nom­e­non. Here’s an excerpt:

The image of the stereo­typ­i­cal jihadi — the masked or bearded zealot hold­ing a Kalash­nikov or wear­ing an explo­sive vest — sud­denly mor­phed into a more ambiva­lent yet still ter­ri­fy­ing men­ace. Experts say this was exactly the aim of the groups that sup­pos­edly recruited Dzhen­net Abdu­rakhmanova, who, along with Maryam Sharipova, attacked two Metro sta­tions in Moscow. Around the world, orga­ni­za­tions like al-Qaeda are real­iz­ing that women can be far more effec­tive than men at pen­e­trat­ing secu­rity check­points, mak­ing their attacks deeper and more lethal. Almost as impor­tant, a female face makes it harder to dis­miss rad­i­cal Islamism as sim­ply evil. “We all have moth­ers. We all tend to ide­al­ize women as non­vi­o­lent,” says Anne Speck­hard, who chairs a NATO expert group on the psy­cho­log­i­cal and social aspects of ter­ror­ism. “When they com­mit acts of ter­ror, peo­ple start ask­ing them­selves, ‘What would make a woman go there and do that?’ This is already a huge pro­pa­ganda vic­tory.” Speck­hard adds, “If you put a woman into the role of car­ry­ing out vio­lence — if you make her look like she’s bereaved, she’s suf­fer­ing — you sud­denly get your mes­sage across much more effectively.”

Last week, this arti­cle was sent to us by a loyal reader. If you’re too lazy to click on that link and read the whole thing, here’s an excerpt:

If you’re an avid online gamer chances are you sign onto, say, Xbox Live most nights and jump into a game of Mod­ern War­fare or Gears of War with either your friends or some ran­dom play­ers. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the major­ity of gamers you encounter are dudes, and prob­a­bly imma­ture dudes at that. What if you could pay a bit of cash to play Mod­ern War­fare with an attrac­tive girl? Or maybe relax with a casual game of check­ers while you video chat with said female? A new social ser­vice launch­ing tomor­row, March 23, called Game­Crush (www.GameCrush.com) is hop­ing there are gamers out there will­ing to pay for the oppor­tu­nity to play with girls.

“The eyes indi­cate the antiq­uity of the soul.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m not entirely sure what “antiq­uity” means, and I’m far too lazy to look it up, so we’ll just have to cross our fin­gers and hope that the above quote applies to the fol­low­ing article.

I’ve never watched The Bach­e­lor. And, as some­one who has, in the past, reli­giously watched such shows as Bev­erly Hills 90210, Mel­rose Place, Mod­els Inc., Joe Mil­lion­aire and The Real World, I’d have no prob­lem read­ily admit­ting it if I were, indeed, a viewer of The Bach­e­lor. But, alas, I am not.

“V” Day.
Valentine’s.
Vic­tory.
Victoria’s Secret.
Vic­tory with Victoria’s Secret.
VIP.
Vic­tory with Victoria’s Secret in a VIP cabana at the Viceroy.
Vag …

Any­way, depend­ing upon where you stand in your sex(less) life, it’s up to you to define this hol­i­day over­flow­ing with lust love seduc­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties. There are ways to slam dunk your Victoria’s Secret vixen dur­ing the V-day hol­i­day, and there are def­i­nitely ways to air­ball. For instance, last V-Day in 2009, I was taken to Valentine’s Day brunch.

Brunch. That res­onates, “He does have a girlfriend.”

On Feb­ru­ary 13, 2008, I ended up mak­ing V-Day din­ner reser­va­tions at Chaya Brasserie in Bev­erly Hills via OpenTable.com myself.

The other night, I spent the evening at the home of a lovely young lady with shoulder-length blonde hair and an adorable smile. After a deli­cious din­ner, we set­tled in for some prime-time tele­vi­sion, then even­tu­ally headed to bed. After she dozed off, most likely from sheer sex­ual exhaus­tion, I slid over to her com­puter to find some­thing to watch on Netflix.com.

I scanned my instant queue for a moment before finally set­tling on Big Fan, a film that was released last year star­ring come­dian Pat­ton Oswalt as a die-hard New York Giants fan, the type that paints his face and reli­giously calls in to sports talk shows.