My sincere prayers go to Alan Henning's family, and his memory.
Mr. Henning was a London cab driver beheaded a day or so ago by ISIL for no reason whatsoever.
Years ago, Alan Alda took part in a research study which sought to interview people in various
positions in job strata, to find out who were happiest in their jobs.
Many with differing locations and purposes within the professions came in near enough to the top.
Several indices were used to measure satisfaction, mere tolerance, dissatisfaction, and true happiness
doing a job to earn a living.
Turns out, at the very top of the list by a good bit were London cab drivers.
As it turns out, the city is so old, and has so many histories and changes in different parts of its
geography, that nearly every fare is a point A to point B adventure, showing shortcuts, new routes,
and pointing out amazing facts when tourists are in tow.
Imagine a member of such a group making such a wondrous sacrifice to help a terrorized people.
Human beings do indeed have gracious and blessed people among them. Mr. Henning shows us that
in stark relief to the people we can scarcely think of as people as they make these useless, brutal
choices about the lives and deaths of others in order to prove how inhuman they are.
We get it. We believe you. You are barely human. Can you finally stop now?
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