To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.