The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?