SOMNAMBULISTIC NOTATIONS
Some nights I have trouble getting to sleep. It doesn't happen often enough to merit one of those sleep clinic innings.
Well, now, you wouldn't expect me to call it an”outing” would you? Such a test session has always struck me as being a little silly anyway - sleeping away from home in a strange bed, wired for sound and motions, noisome fragrances wafting wildly and exotic, soul-searing sounds emanating as strange territorially constituted noises and sans my favorite pillows or coverlets. How can all that demonstrate how I normally sleep. Since I enjoy sleeping, it seems a bit odd I have not been tempted to try such a supervised sleep session, but the idea has never rated a place on my “Things To Do” (TTD) list.
My occasional tendencies to sleeplessness are few and far between and I have felt them to be associated, quite often, with things which - during the preceding wakeful hours - have been “on my mind.” I suppose one would have to label them as being “worry”items. Yesterday, for example Bin Laden choose to come out of the wormy woodwork. That, alone, would have been cause for concern, but to do so on the eve of our election week-end when “poor judgment” is standard operating procedure with so many of us adds to its upsetting nature.
Why now? We can only assume that them move was planned, because we have certain been shown that just about everything the Terrorist Mind does is based on their idea of a perverted purpose. The concept of suicide bombers is the oriental idea of “kamakazi” attacks which took us by such illogical surprise during the early days of World War II. In one sense, the technique can be seen as a sign of weakness when even the perpetrators cannot devise a means of escape unharmed. If being an especially revered and honored corpse to the cause is such an honor, it just may be that we can encourage Bin Laden to show himself other than on cowardly spools of magnetic tape and be a volunteer not unlike the dedicated idiots he has been dispatching worldwide to do his dirty work for him.
Bin Laden's sudden willingness to appear on or near center stage might be a good thing I reflected on words of worldly wisdom uttered in my note-taking presence by a Mexican-American army buddy of mine who said: “You will fin' it easier to crush the cockroach when you can see heem!.”
Don't lose any more sleep about it. B. L. will decide B .L's fate in due time. Do be concerned about choosing our national leader. As of this morning, each is out-hawking the other. Bin is back.
A.L.M. October 30, 2004 [c462wds]
