no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.