Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

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

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.