Words. I’ve saved few and spent many. Baiting minds with a frustrated tongue. Speaking from a pulpit of privilege. Self-absorbed, indulgent responsibility. Mattering to no one. Each word a pill, a placebo; Anything to stem the ceaseless flow; Of despair...
For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The beheadings, rapes, and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient...
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market. Forty- to 50-year-old women were priced at...
