Almost like a visit from the Kardashians -- Armenia checks in

We just got our first Eff You visitor from Armenia, homeland of Kim Kardashian's ancestors. Not exactly the same as the Kardashians dropping by, but a perfectly good excuse to run a photo of America's best-known Armenian-American:

Hey, I could have been much more exploitative -- there must be a bazillion pictures of her out there with next to nothing on. And I won't even mention the video that made her famous. But I digress.

So, Armenia. It's a democratic republic jammed in there between Turkey, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan and a couple countries you never heard of. Yeah, it's land-locked. And reallly mountainous. Mount Ararat, the traditional landing spot for Noah's Ark, is in Armenia.

Armenia is often referred to as the "first Christian nation" because it adopted Christianity as its official religion around 300 A.D. Things have been pretty much downhill from there. Armenia is most famous in this country for the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1917, when the Turks killed as many as a million Armenians (the current population of Armenia is 3 million. Even tossing in the current 8 million or so Armenians living abroad, and that is nearly 1 in 10 Armenians. And, of course there were fewer Armenians then.) Turkey still says it didn't do shit. No one believes them. They also claim they didn't torture Lawrence of Arabia. Nobody buying that shit, either.

Anyway, Armenia has had a hard time of it, what with the genocide, its time as a Soviet possession, and the centuries of getting kicked around and owned by more powerful neighbors. We hope our Armenia visitor enjoys the blog. Send friends.