Public Editor -The New York Times

In the Sunday, December 10, 2008 issue of the New York Times, Clark Hoyt, the Public Editor agonizes over "... what to call people who pursue political, religious, territorial, or unidentifiable goals through violence on civilians." There does exist a well-established rule for deciding. It comes from Hoyle's rules for poker. Simply put, it says that cards "speak for themselves". A player may not call two-pair a full-house. By analogy, these individuals should be called what they are, homicidal sociopaths.