There are some things in the news about which I am totally confused. Where should I start? That’s one of the confusions, since starting in the middle is what I usually do. Anyway, when I was a wee lass my major in college was (this actually existed in prehistoric days) Speech Arts. You can laugh if you want, or even guffaw, but it served me well. Among the many things I did to earn money to pay my college bills, was to teach young women who were secretaries but wanted to be management, to get rid of an accent that said “uneducated”—even though they were not. I did speech training for years with everyone from corporate executives to my wonderful friend Tony Snow, who wanted to transition from print to electronic media, but he didn’t like his voice.
What has all this to do with my confusion? It has become clear to me (despite the confusion), that no one knows how to pronounce the name of our newest enemy, How do you conquer an enemy whose name you do not know. Is it Isis (pronounced ‘eyesis') or Isol (pronounced eyesol)—or is it Isol (pronounced with a short I as in is). Or perhaps Isil, as in is sol)? When Diplomats speak of the evil it is usually with the short “i”. And they swallow the “el”. Maybe they do it that way because it’s less common, less known. And diplomats always want to know more than real people. They want to have a secret that nobody who is not a diplomat can know. So everytime I hear the enemy described, the name changes. Well the name doesn’t change but it sounds like it does.
First they were AlKaida. But then this one guy got mad at Alkaida, and decided that there needed to be a more terrifying terrorist organization. Sure it was terrifying when women and children were tortured and men were murdered. But not as terrifying as chopping off someone’s head – which I guess was terrifying during the French Revolution but the French became sophisticated and this particular way of getting rid of someone, seemed distasteful, even barbaric. And nothing makes the American public angrier than a barbaric beheading. Personally, I think that a person who murders a whole lot of little kids in a school is equally barbaric, but no one cares what I think.
Moving right along in my confusion. There is something wrong with the National Football League. How stupid can one organization be. Just further proves that the amount a person gets paid for the work they do has nothing to do with the amount of smarts they pretend to have in their brains. And speaking of barbaric (OK they probably wouldn’t make beheading a career), but they do not need to beat the crap out of their female partner or beat their four year old with a stick. If they know they might use their fists to brutalize a friend or relative, they have so much money they can hire a body guard for their beloveds. And why would a woman stay with a beast…. It’s all about the money, the security, and the status – if they live. You see why I am confused. The rich get richer without apologies or a moral core, and the terrorists, be they Isis, Isol, or an overpaid athlete who has also never been civilized, are probably as confused as am I, but for different reasons. We’re just sayin’…Iris
What has all this to do with my confusion? It has become clear to me (despite the confusion), that no one knows how to pronounce the name of our newest enemy, How do you conquer an enemy whose name you do not know. Is it Isis (pronounced ‘eyesis') or Isol (pronounced eyesol)—or is it Isol (pronounced with a short I as in is). Or perhaps Isil, as in is sol)? When Diplomats speak of the evil it is usually with the short “i”. And they swallow the “el”. Maybe they do it that way because it’s less common, less known. And diplomats always want to know more than real people. They want to have a secret that nobody who is not a diplomat can know. So everytime I hear the enemy described, the name changes. Well the name doesn’t change but it sounds like it does.
First they were AlKaida. But then this one guy got mad at Alkaida, and decided that there needed to be a more terrifying terrorist organization. Sure it was terrifying when women and children were tortured and men were murdered. But not as terrifying as chopping off someone’s head – which I guess was terrifying during the French Revolution but the French became sophisticated and this particular way of getting rid of someone, seemed distasteful, even barbaric. And nothing makes the American public angrier than a barbaric beheading. Personally, I think that a person who murders a whole lot of little kids in a school is equally barbaric, but no one cares what I think.
Moving right along in my confusion. There is something wrong with the National Football League. How stupid can one organization be. Just further proves that the amount a person gets paid for the work they do has nothing to do with the amount of smarts they pretend to have in their brains. And speaking of barbaric (OK they probably wouldn’t make beheading a career), but they do not need to beat the crap out of their female partner or beat their four year old with a stick. If they know they might use their fists to brutalize a friend or relative, they have so much money they can hire a body guard for their beloveds. And why would a woman stay with a beast…. It’s all about the money, the security, and the status – if they live. You see why I am confused. The rich get richer without apologies or a moral core, and the terrorists, be they Isis, Isol, or an overpaid athlete who has also never been civilized, are probably as confused as am I, but for different reasons. We’re just sayin’…Iris
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