There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.