Hello! I managed to wriggle free from the grasp of Twitter.  It's so much easier to just write 140 character tweets than big, klunky articles that actually SAY something. Most people nowadays don't have the attention span to read an ENTIRE paragraph. Whew. Hard work. Much less write one.

I don't understand ISIS.  First of all, is there any connection between ISIS and the Goddess Isis?  I don't think that ISIS would be her style, but then who knows?

There also seems to be a schism in ISIS between money-grubbing kidnapper/extortionists and True Believer Muslim Fundamentalists.

I don't understand why ISIS would destroy valuable artifacts.  The money-grubbers in ISIS would surely understand that they could get a lot of money by selling the artifacts to other countries. And why would ISIS want to destroy priceless treasures of the Islamic tradition? Weird.

Draft 1 3/9/2015