SENSELESS

Jeffrey Phelps / Associated Press / August 5, 2012 

I am not writing today to "make sense" of anything that happened at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin.  There are far too many people who are rushing to "make sense" of that event and every other one like it.

I happen to distrust most of those individuals . . . not because I dislike them or oppose them but simply because I distrust this fetish we in the West have developed for "making sense" of everything that happens immediately after it happens.

SITTING IN SILENCE
Job's friends were wise enough to sit in silence for seven days with Job after he lost everything.  And in the end they still didn't get the analysis right.