Everyone should read this

springheel_jack posted this in his LJ today, and it's fucking right on.

Ghostly Terror

nihilistic_kid also wrote an excellent short thing, when asked by some sci-fi source whether the War on Terror^tm is really World War III. Scroll down until you get to Nick Mamatas:

Is this WWIII?

I don't usually go linkariffic (because other people do it much better than me), but these are so well worth it.