It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.