Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

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

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

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