Jihadi recruitment
Terrorist organisations don't recruit - testicular young men who want to go down in history (since they can't go down on your little sister) flock to Iraq, Afghanistan and so on all by themselves, and hurl themselves at al-Qaeda like Lindsay Lohan at a kilo of cocaine.

In the interests of keeping it relevant, I didn't rebel against my parents or school authorities. Why would I? My parents listen to Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and Tom Waits. My schoolteachers were hippies with pierced noses (RIP Ms Stevenson-Ryan).

My peers, however, made the Khmer Rouge look like art critics from the New Yorker. I rebelled against them by listening to music that I liked, reading books and masturbating five times a day. (OK, that's a lie. It was more like three.)

I'd love to be able to say that I got a great job as an artist-in-residence at a prestigious university while they languish on the dole, but in fact I got out of high school when unemployment was 12%, and spent about seven years being terminally poor while they got lower-middle class jobs and bred like yeast. I probably will get a prestigious job eventually, but I'm also a living Darwin Award (ain't no addition to the gene pool here, pal) while they spread their seed widely.

There's a lesson in there somewhere, but I'm fucked if I know what it is.
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Mon 23 Jul 2007, 13:48, Reply)