Sleeping Without Saddam
Re: Keep Walking, Except For You In The Noose:
I guess I am not the only person who has been sleeping poorly. Ever since Saddam Hussein was captured, life has been a little less pleasant. Sure, he was stuck in a secret jail in the middle of Iraq, guarded by what must have been hundreds of highly-trained well-equipped US soldiers, but one thought could never leave my head: What if he escaped, came to America, and chose me as the one American person upon whom he would take revenge for his ouster and humiliation? I sat up many a terrified night—kitchen knife by my side—waiting for Saddam's crazed visage to peer through my window before he broke in and killed me in cold blood. Now that Saddam has been executed, I finally feel as though I can sleep soundly, as this imminent threat to my life has passed. Thank god.
Posted on January 3, 2007 by - Morgan Clendaniel
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On Risk Assessment
This reminds me of a recent Time magazine article on why we worry about the wrong things. Hypothetically, we shouldn't worry ourselves too much about things that aren't terribly likely to happen, e.g., Saddam Hussein escaping prison to come kill you(statistically speaking, there is about a one in 300,000,000 chance of Hussein randomly choosing you out of the United States' citizens to be his revenge victim, assuming the also unlikely chance of escape and random vengeance-killing). Of course, unlikely things are often terrible things to us because of their very unfamiliarity, and an incident such as this is certainly not a common occurance for most.
All in all, as a risk-assessmet piece, I wouldn't recommend this article to the Pentagon, but as a humor article I'd say it's pretty darn good. ;-)
Posted on January 3, 2007 — by Ranmoth
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This site makes it hard to express my wide range of sentiment
Where's the "IT'S BAD" Button?
Posted on January 5, 2007 — by NYLawyer
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