Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.