• I don’t understand why, after negotiations with the sniper in the parking garage failed, Dallas police decided to use a bomb to kill the shooter instead of, say, tear gas.  I wonder whether the minute-to-minute story will ever be told.

• Let’s pretend for a minute that I could prove that Allah/God/Yahweh does not exist.  Would such a proof undermine the flimsy rationale for most of our world’s terrorism, violence and oppression, or would the perpetrators just invent another justification for the inhumanities and indecencies they are already wont to commit?  I would say the latter.

• Animals are smart, a lot smarter than we are.  They don’t have ineffectual politicians telling them where to go to the bathroom and who they may love.  No, they simply nip each other now and then, to let each other know who is top dog in the arena.  Then, to mark their territory, they piss on a tree.  Humans get arrested for pissing on trees.  Oh, to have the wisdom of an animal.