Thanks to Mark Byron for the mention yesterday. Dr. Byron is a thoughtful, committed Christian and a professor. His blog (www.markbyron.blogspot.com) is a daily read. His “edifier de jour” is always, well, edifying, containing a scripture passage and comments. His analysis of the economy is always insightful also.

Here are some horrifying comments from Mike Tyson, as recorded in the Associated Press.
Mike Tyson hasn't lost his penchant for saying the outrageous. In a television interview scheduled for broadcast Thursday, Tyson again denied he raped Desiree Washington in 1991 in an Indianapolis hotel room. But he said the burden of being labeled a convicted rapist makes him want to do it now.
"I just hate her guts. She put me in that state, where I don't know,'' Tyson said. "I really wish I did now. But now I really do want to rape her.''
Tyson made the comments during a recent interview in Miami Beach with Greta Van Susteren, who was taking a look back at the circumstances of Tyson's 1992 trial that ended with him convicted of rape and sentenced to six years in prison.

This shows you at least two things. First, Mike Tyson needs serious help. This angry man is a danger to society. He cannot contain his violence to the ring. Rather, he wants to make the world like the ring, where the big man bullies the world through violence. Second, rape is a crime of violence more than sex, as studies have shown. Tyson wants to use rape to subdue and punish.

Terrorists have this same bully syndrome. They cannot get what they want through normal channels, so they try to terrorize the rest of the world into letting them have their way. The greatest benefit of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars may be that is shows them it will not work. If they kick the sleeping dog long enough, they will get bitten.

And, what is up with the Saudis? The arrested 11 more suspected terrorists, including 3 clerics. They have around 100 people in custody altogether. They have never responded to terrorist attacks with this vigor. Does the war have them on edge also? If so, that is one more good result that has come of it.