[Socrates might respond this way: How does one rehabilitate a man who won't acknowledge having sinned?] How do you heal somebody who doesn't admit they want it? ... Even your basic 12-step programs say you have to admit what your behavior was. |
Frankly, people who buy Showtime pay-per-view are supporting him and supporting the notion that you can get away with anything. |
How did we end the summer ... stuck between a Roberts and a hard place? We've spent months poring over 60,000 pages from the National Archives and reams of personal profiles for clues about how John Roberts would rule on the highest court in land. ... The bottom line is that barring some last minute photo of John Roberts popping out of a cake at a KKK rally smoking crack, he's going to be confirmed. And if he were magically derailed, who would be next? ... John Roberts may turn out to be as far right as People for the American Way says. But he may also be as good as it gets under this administration. |
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box |
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right |
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right |
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right |
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them? |
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. |
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. |
Now that we have waved 'Bye, Bye, Brownie' to Michael Brown, the hapless head of FEMA, could we turn our sights back to another agency on the skids: the Food and Drug Administration? |
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. |
some people hate the president so much that it's impossible to have a conversation with them. |
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. |
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. I begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. |