A Requiem for Rea­son. I append here a list of all Chris­t­ian coun­tries con­quered by mil­i­tant Moslems since 1529:

Next, a par­tial list of Moslem coun­tries con­quered by Chris­tians: Morocco, Alge­ria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Pales­tine, Jor­dan, Iraq (the first time), Iraq (again), Iran, Pak­istan, East Pak­istan, Indone­sia, Saudi Ara­bia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Abu Dhabi, Dubai….

This list does not include such minor Chris­t­ian con­quests as North, South, and Cen­tral Amer­ica, India, China, South­east Asia, black Africa, and such. Uncon­scionable, Moslem aggres­sive­ness is. [Fred On Every­thing]

Some his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive for the neo-Nazis who are push­ing ridicu­lous con­spir­acy the­o­ries recy­cled from 1930s Ger­many to avoid fac­ing up to the rea­son why peo­ple might dis­like the U.S.

Parental Fears vs. Real­i­ties.

From NPR:

Based on sur­veys Barnes col­lected, the top five wor­ries of par­ents are, in order:

1. Kid­nap­ping

2. School snipers
3. Ter­ror­ists
4. Dan­ger­ous strangers
5. Drugs

But how do chil­dren really get hurt or killed?

1. Car acci­dents

2. Homi­cide (usu­ally com­mit­ted by a per­son who knows the child, not a stranger)
3. Abuse
4. Sui­cide
5. Drown­ing

Why such a big dis­crep­ancy between wor­ries and real­ity? Barnes says par­ents fix­ate on rare events because they inter­nal­ize hor­rific sto­ries they hear on the news or from a friend with­out stop­ping to think about the odds the same thing could hap­pen to their children.

No sur­prise to any reg­u­lar reader of this blog.

[Schneier on Secu­rity]

I think Barnes has missed some­thing which is rather obvi­ous to me. The things in the sec­ond list are all either things done by the par­ents, or some­thing which most peo­ple would think that the par­ents could have or should have pre­vented. We can hardly expect par­ents to acknowl­edge that par­ents are a greater dan­ger to chil­dren than the var­i­ous boogey­men in the first list.