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 So let's say the folks in Virginia were sick and tired of being pushed around by their governor, the same on they've had for twenty-four years and the son of the guy who had been running the place for thirty some years before that. Tired enough that they would take up arms and start shooting up the place, eventually taking their guns and their cause all the way up to Richmond where they managed to frightened the powers that be right out of town, leaving the rabble to take over. 

Then imagine how comfortable the folks in Maryland and Delaware, not to mention those living in North Carolina and West Virginia might be feeling. Especially if traditionally over the past few centuries none of the citizens of those neighboring states they hadn't gotten along too terribly well not just with Virginia but each other as well. 

Things could get messy pretty quick. 

Which is essentially what happened across the ocean in the Middle East this past weekend when rebels overran Damascus and sent Syria's former "president" Bashar Al-Assad escaped to Russia to avoid being arrested, maimed, tortured, and otherwise humiliated by those aforementioned rebels. That sucking sound you hear is the power vacuum created by an authoritarian dictator fleeing up his strings to his puppet-master in Moscow. 

Currently, neighbor Benjamin Netanyahu is taking credit for Israel's military strikes for loosening the hold the Assad family has had over Syria for the past fifty years. Netanyahu also directed his troops into the previously disputed "buffer zone" on the border between their two countries. You might remember Israel's military has been pretty busy fighting with other countries and factions in and around their collective neighborhood. 

Wouldn't that get messy pretty quick? 

Business as usual in the Middle East? 

And the big story this weekend? Who's going to be in the College Football Playoff?

Silly Americans. It's not a World War unless it includes you, right?