Distance and Death

I don’t remember how or when my brother taught me the saying “distance and death dress everyone in his best smile.” I know that I’ve known it, seemingly all my life.

As you guys know I’ve been reading about Islam. I’ve also been meditating on the glamour that Europe has always exerted over a certain number of Americans, a glamour all out of proportion to what it actually is and how people actually live there. And of course on many people’s (particularly leftists’) view of cultures that are co...