Theodore Dalrymple

Isn't his world view black! An article in the City Journal Autumn 2005 titled "The Suicide Bombers Among Us" is typically harsh and premonitory. Read the whole thing here.

"The mere contemplation of a suicide bomber's state of mind is deeply unsettling...". There are a number of things he says that I don't agree with. I've certainly "contemplated" their state of mind, and keep running across publications that explain male, teenaged, and depressed thinking in a straight forward way. This isn't unsettling, more enlightening.

Just today I read, in a book by Michael Gurian, that men's awareness of personal emotions takes hours to surface, as compared to the female nano second. I made that last bit up. He said something like seven hours before they know what they're really feeling, I'll check it again and report back.

Because I'm off to the pub, you know where, more later..