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

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.