Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.