But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.