HUMANITY / BRUTALITY

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This summer, a knife-wielding assassin attacked and grievously wounded author Salman Rushdie. He had spent years of hiding after religious fanatic Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him. Here, the danger seemingly over, Rushdie conducted a public reading. And then, a few years later, the crazed attack.

The man on the right is not Rushdie’s attacker, but an angry, machete-wielding man in Vermont, who drew the weapon after being informed that the street he wanted to drive through was briefly closed to accommodate a demonstration for migrant rights. He was allowed through without violence.

(I’ll try for a happier post tomorrow.)