It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.