... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

I choose YouTube over telly.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it