How is it possible to have a civil war?

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!

I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual.

Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.