Sometimes it's just easy to figure these things out...

So I was out for dinner tonight with one of my oldest friends... actually, check that. He is comfortably the oldest friend I still actively see. Like, there are others that I'll see at the bars, and hang out with, talk to, whatever.... but for people I actually plan to see, it's not even close. And by not even close, I mean we've known each other for 10 years longer than anyone else I know.

Sometimes you wonder how friendships last that long. Other times you don't. Tonight, I had one of those times you don't.

While he was talking about some details of the unquestionably tense racial relations in Bahrain (where he has been working for the last two years), he tosses out this gem...

"Yeah, they really don't like Jews. In fact, they don't even have bagels there."

You can't make this shit up.