Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.