Welcome friends!
I wanted to get back to the near enemy of American conservatives and their evil clown act this week but then I noticed a peculiar story about some of our far away enemies, the horde of religious fanatics / violent jerks that inhabit the so-called Third World, so I thought maybe I should take another swipe at them. I know many Americans will dismiss this as shooting fish in a barrel. We get it. These people are from another world. They don’t share our values. What they think is just and proper is offensive to the good people of our own world. (And when I say “they” I obviously don’t mean everyone residing in these benighted regions; I mean the religious fanatics / violent jerks that are the focus of this post.) But trust me; the story I’m talking about had a little twist. It wasn’t your run of the mill account of Islamic terrorists beheading little kids out in some sweltering desert far far away. No, the story I’m talking about involved a teenaged boy who was led by a noxious combination of religion, peer pressure, and probably implicit threats of violence to cut off his own hand. What a world we live in, right? Really a rather disgusting place if one thinks about it. And the funny thing is we’ve had millennia to fix it up. Oh well, I guess just keep trying. No one ever said it would be easy. Or is this perhaps the best we can do? I sure hope not.
The story came out of Pakistan although I suppose it could equally well have involved any of the other countries in that part of the world... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website. All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee. Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right? If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then. Thank you my friends!
