Noting the apparent similarity between Jane, the must read for the better dressed 20-something woman, and Jane's Defence Weekly, the must-read for the military industrial complex, Gawker Media's Jezebel blog hit upon an idea: why not make geopolitics accessible for readers of women's fashions mags? To do this they turned to Jane's Defence Weekly reporter Nathan Hodge (my eminently better half) on the state of world politics.
Here's a snippet (full interview is here):
*So dude, the global G8 summit has totally been happening. Right in the middle of all this madness with Paris Hilton! And today something almost as dramatic as a certain L.A. county sheriff shitfight happened during the summit: Russian president Vladimir Putin said to President Bush (and we paraphrase!) "You know what, we have been whining and complaining about the dinky little missile defense shield you're trying to build, but just because we got laid this morning we're gonna give you Azerbaijan to locate your receptor thingys." Now, last we checked Putin was not the boss of Azerbaijan, but we also hear that doesn't matter in Central Asia! Which brings us to the question, what exactly is a missile defense shield and why do we need it? *
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*__Q: __Would we be right to say, Nathan, that the missile defense shield is SORT OF like, a giant, ineffective condom for the earth? **
Hodge: Um, I'm not sure about "condom." You could call it a prophylactic. *
