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?

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

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.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?