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

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

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

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.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.