At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.