A confession...

Whenever I hear Melissa Block or Robert Siegel or Charlie Rose refer to "sectarian violence," I imagine--against my better intelligence--hundreds of secretaries, each seated at a large metal desk, carefully crafting paper airplanes armed with thumbtacks and staples, maliciously coordinating office-wide computer viruses, and cleverly programming ink jet printers to self destruct when asked to "collate."


Sec(re)tarian Violence. Absurd? Yes. Insensitive? Probably. But true all the same.