Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

We are not evolved but evolving.

The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?

The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.