The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage