To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.