The Good Old Days Are Now.

Back In Pre-revolutionary America Cruel And Unusual Punishment Meant The Rack And Burning At The Stake... In More Recent Rulings It Has Been Taken To Mean The Absence Of Cable Television And Denial Of Sex-change Operations, Or Just Overcrowding In The Prisons.

Man Is A Creature Of Hope And Invention, Both Of Which Belie The Idea That Things Cannot Be Changed.

I Think It's An Intellectual Duty For A Person Who Lives In A Free Society To Read Material Not Only With Which You Agree, But With Which You Disagree. Because Every So Often Somebody You Think Is Wrong Will Actually Turn Out To Be Right.

Wars Are Begun By Frightened Men. They Fear War, But More Than That, They Fear What Will Happen If They Don't Start One Or Take Equivalent Action, I Suppose.

I Just Finished Reading The Koran, And There's Nothing In There I Didn't Hear In Sunday School.