So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

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

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

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.