Wonder if they have anything to do with Blackwater. You know, Blackwater was in Iraq, same place everyone was stealing cradle of civilization artifacts and pinning it on insurgent violence and the erasure of history and prehistory. Truth is, they were after some very specific items. There are things in Iraq (or there were) that would send the world standing on its head. There were DNA samples they conveniently decided weren't worth the effort. Weird ones. There were all sorts of things that really would blow minds. Can you imagine the value?

When I hear of Black rock I think of Lost. When I think of Lost, I think of the mercenaries. When I think of the mercenaries and the plot, I think of how everything on that show had direction and suddenly wrapped up dumb because, it seems, someone wanted it that way.

But coincidentally, Black rock, Blackwater, Blackstone, etc. . .