Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.