The terrorist inside my husband's brain
This is obviously painful for the family and the fans, and I hope my words are not taken in the wrong way.But I really wish Americans (and yes, I think it's mostly Americans who have this tendency) would choose their words more carefully.If I am not mistaken, we are talking about a disease. What makes the analogy to "terrorism" apt here?For a while, everything seemed to be a "war" ("war on drugs", "war on crime", "war on bla"…). Now, everything that inflicts pain and trauma, it seems, is "terrorism".This may not be the right occasion to complain about this. But at the time of reading, it is top of the list at HN and this kind of conflation really bothers me. Words still have meaning, one would hope, the sad Zeitgeist of our time notwithstanding.