In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

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.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

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.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.