A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.