So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

I don’t have a body, I am a body.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.