stereotypical, heterosexual man. He loves sports. He likes cars. To cope with the devastation he feels as he watches his wife, my mom, slowly die of Early Onset Alzheimer’s, he decided to fulfill one of his fondest, life–long dreams—a dream I wasn’t expecting. He bought a huge, expensive motorcycle.

He is also atypical in some ways though. Ways that happened to make him the perfect father for me to have as a gay kid growing up in a Mormon family.

First, although he ended up becoming a Seminary and Institute teacher and he’s currently the Institute director at Portland State University, he got his Master’s degree in social work where he specialized in marriage and family counseling. This gave him some tools.

Second, and more importantly, he really truly understands theYemen War will be remembered as a war crime, like the slaughter of the Armenians, in which both the United States and Great Britain played leading supporting roles.

Saudi Arabia has been lured into a war which is consuming its oil wealth and fostering civil tension at home. Yet another Middle Eastern country on its own road to self-destruction. The faces of thousands of dead Yemeni civilians and children rise up like a spectre to haunt us.

Just imagine the peace dividend if this $1.7 trillion were to be spent on improving education or the environment instead of on entirely pointless improved nuclear capabilities. No matter what the United States does with its nuclear arsenal, Russia and China will both upgrade to MAD (mutually assured destruction).

Russia's military stance is to