It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.