Monsters

I avoid subjecting myself to carnage, if at all possible. I have not watched a beheading video, or any of the Islamist snuff porn. I know well enough what it looks like. But a few days ago I loaded a page which — and I hesitate to even paint a word-picture of it, forgive me — a page which prominently displayed one of these two-legged beasts casually holding up a beheaded little girl, her body in a pretty blue dress like you might see on any little girl in mid-America.

That's the picture on the left. I mean, glad you didn't use it. But that's the picture which contrasts more effectively with the one on the right.