It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.