My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of them could ever, ever be stars, which is why they're always trying to "take the piss" from those they envy.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.