The Blog Hole: Kill All Pirates, Amazon Hates On Gays and America Challenged

Iran Should Be Our Nuclear BFF: Columnist Sonni Efron suggests the best way to control Iran's nuclear ambitions is to help them obtain nuclear energy. What!? Are you crazy, Sonni Efron? Maybe she is crazy…  like a fox.  [latimes.com]

USA! USA! USA!  Everybody dumps on America, until of course, they need America's big, awesome, swinging firepower. David Paul Kuhn says the world still needs America's might. [realclearpolitics.com]

Death To Johnny Depp: According to Fred C. Iklé, there is only one way to deal with pirates, and that's to bake them a delicious bunt cake. No, actually, the only way to deal with pirates is to kill them dead. Kill them twice, actually. [washingtonpost.com]

Book Seller Burns Books: Amazon.com is navigating a lil' bit of a public relations nightmare, having been accused of "de-ranking" sex writers of all stripes. Mitch Wagner puts the breaks on the snowballing controversy. [informationweek.com]

Tags: Iran, LGBT, Pirates, The Blog Hole