Maybe a New Category Might Help Me Make Sense of It

    I’m still speechless over this. CNN has a story about the Nigerian woman who may be buried up to her neck and stoned because she gave birth out of wedlock. The story is unbelievable enough but then the article goes on to combine the terms “law”, “judge”, “court” and…and this: “[Defense lawyer] Yawuri also contended that under some interpretations of Shariah law, babies can remain in gestation in their mother’s womb for up to five years, making it possible under Islam that her ex-husband could have fathered the child.”
    I can’t even (completely) blame Islam on this brain-deadness. There was another CNN story about how Arabs in Iraq are convinced the sunglasses the US mlitary wear give them…sweet Jesus…X-ray vision. “‘With those glasses, he can definitely see through women’s clothes,’ said the engineering student, Samer Hamid. ‘It makes me angry. We are afraid to take our families out on the street.’”
    So what is it? Is the sun too hot on your mideast head? Are you crazy from the heat? Is it sunstroke? Are you parched? Is it possible that something as simple as shade, or some air-conditioning, or maybe just a chilled beverage might — if you will — let cooler heads prevail?
    Then again, we don’t want to terrify you with the miracle that is an ice cube.