Dear Blog,

It's 2:08 am on Friday morning.  I only have two more pages of copywriting to go.  Fading quickly, so of course I took some time out to read an article about the assassination in Pakistan today (yesterday). 

My parents had the news on all day so I couldn't help but hear what had happened and it sent me into a doomsday depression.  The doomsday depression actually started last night when I heard about "Two girls, one cup."  If that's not a sign that Armageddon is here, then I don't know what.

But back to the suicide bombing:  every time I hear about a terrorist attack I get freaked out at how people can possibly do stuff like that.  And the way our country's news frames it is always that the people who do it are fundamentally different than we are.  Not just that they are Islamic extremists, but that they are a more savage variety of human than we are.  Like they are born capable of barbarism before they read word one of the Koran.  But here's what Folksy Wisdom Kelly has to say:  all humans resist change, often violently, and if suicide bombing had been a thing back in the day, we may very well have seen stuff like this during our own civil rights movement.  Let's face it:  we did see stuff like this back in the day.  We saw churches full of children bombed because some people didn't believe in freedom for all.  How is that different than what's happening in the Middle East today?  Except for the fact that white supremacists appear to have had worse organizational skills than Islamic extremists, I don't see much of a difference.

All I'm saying is let's not assume it's the end of the world just because people are doing what they've always done, which is act like unreasonable brutes.  And by people, I am of course referring mostly to men.  Oh snap and etc.

love,

Sorry, That Was Uncalled For