w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Clearly, as a race, we haven’t advanced much since the Japanese were decapitating POWs with the WW2 equivalent of a light sabre.

I’ve often averred that, if someone was properly convicted of a heinous crime against a fellow human, I’d cheerfully throw the switch, pull the lever, inject the fatal dose, whatever.

But for a knot of religious zealots to form an impromptu executive, take a randomly-kidnapped man and use him as a fair representative of all that’s evil about the West and publicly behead him, is taking things too far? Even if all of the allegations and pictures about abuse of Iraqis are true?

Does the mind die instantly the moment that the head is severed? I read that the brain does not feel pain – strange that the organ which tells us that something is hurting cannot, itself, feel that same sensation. I just hope the guy died quickly.

And in other news. A new type of inflatable doll is being produced in the Middle East, especially for asthmatics. It blows itself up.