Did you hear about the Pennsylvania man who has a registered emotional support alligator?
Joie Henney says his pet, Wally, likes to give hugs. Henney told reporters that his doctor gave him approval to use the five-foot-long alligator for emotional support rather than go on medication for depression. He frequently takes Wally to senior centers and minor-league baseball games. “He’s just like a dog,” he told a woman recently. “He wants to be loved and petted.”
When I read about Wally, I thought of an Indonesian woman who was keeping Merry, a fourteen-foot crocodile, as a pet. Earlier this month, she was killed and partially eaten by the animal.
There’s an old story about a scorpion and a frog who met on the bank of a stream. The scorpion asked the frog to carry him across the water on its back.
The frog asked, “How do I know you won’t sting me?”
The scorpion said, “Because if I do, I will die too.”
The frog was satisfied, and the two set out across the water. Midstream, the scorpion stung the frog.
As the frog started to sink, knowing they would both drown, it gasped, “Why?”
The scorpion replied: “It’s my nature.”
The danger of euphemisms
Renaming reality doesn’t change reality.
What proponents call the “sexual revolution,” the Bible calls “sin.” Mary Eberstadt documents the devastation of this “revolution” for women, families, the elderly, and victims of pornography and sexually transmitted disease.
“Death with dignity” is still death. The “product of conception” is how Planned Parenthood describes a baby in its mother’s womb. What Nazi Germany called the “Final Solution,” we call the “Holocaust.” (Israelis call it the “Shoah,” meaning catastrophe.)
Euphemisms are useful in anesthetizing us to reality. But when the patient wakes up, the pain returns.
Every four years, the Director of National Intelligence produces a document called the National Intelligence Strategy. The Washington…
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