The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.