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Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.

People keep saying, God is in the details. He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence.

Fuck off, some of them seem to be yelling at coalition forces. A lot hinges on the appropriate military response. Fuck you might be risky. OK, off we fuck, then might buy some valuable time.

At the time, the United States had an attorney general named John Ashcroft, who had stated that America had "no king but Jesus" (a claim that was exactly two words too long).

Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods .

There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.

Some peaceniks clear their throats by saying that, of course, they oppose Saddam Hussein as much as anybody, though not enough to support doing anything about him.

It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

and showed him to be a villa-dwelling dependent and not an ascetic cave-dwelling guerrilla.

How much vanity must be concealed-not too effectively at that- in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

Today I want to puke when I hear the word "radical" applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.)

he amended the thought to say that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," thus

Except that cancer isn't so … considerate.

Las atrocidades religiosas del pasado y el presente no se han producido porque nosotros seamos malos, sino porque en la naturaleza es un hecho que desde el punto de vista biológico la especie humana es racional solo en parte.

One ought not to quarrel with the aim of impartiality. It is just that, as an objective, it is harder to attain than its advocates imagine.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

It should bear its own health warning: so sugary that you may need an insulin shot to withstand it.

It may be that... you recognize something of yourself in these instances... a disposition to resistance... against arbitrary authority or witless mass opinion

In my own not-all-that-humble opinion, duping the hicks is a degree or two worse than condescending to them.

The Bible commands us to love our enemies. I love the Pope very much.

No less an authority than Lavrenty Beria attacked the excesses of the Hungarian secret police (which must have stung a bit)

Prayers: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favour of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.