I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out ina sun I’m black When I git cold I’m black When I git scared I’m black And when I die I’m still black. But you white fella When you’re born you’re pink When you grow up you’re white When you git sick you’re green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you’re yellow And when you die you’re grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured?

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.