Congress will divide along partisan lines to pass a Republican version of health-care reform, and Republicans will vote against it
The primary function of written communication is to facilitate slavery. The use of writing for disinterested purposes, and as a source of intellectual and aesthetic pleasure, is a secondary result, and more often than not it may even be turned into a means of strengthening, justifying or concealing the other
The achievement of the great statesman is not to reach the best decision fastest, but to mediate effectively among competing views and values
An ex-felon I interviewed yesterday described how the prison in Forth Worth where he served time was so crowded that even when he was in solitary confinement, he had two cell mates
We didn’t need to provide habeas corpus rights during World War II because, when we captured a man in a German army uniform, we could be pretty confident that he was actually a German soldier, not some hapless goatherd sold into our custody by a jealous village rival
In a twin conspiracy, a pair of identical twins would pretend to be only one person. For example, in college each twin could specialize in, and then ace, half of the classes; their GPA would soar. They might together make partner in a law firm by handling a lot more work than other lawyers. They could cheat on their spouse and while offering that spouse a near-constant video of “their” activities. In fact, they could always have an alibi for anything they did
I'm surprised the NYT was willing to use the words "molestation" and "abuse." I think "enhanced affection" is more appropriate
Our concern should be not so much for the supposed rights of animals but for the vices of humans. The principle of not doing unnecessary harm "does not involve extending to animals the privileges and protections that are the gift of moral agency". It derives from our aversion to the human vice of enjoying suffering for its own sake
The Leaf, the electric runabout that Nissan will build at its Sunderland factory, will be the first mass-market car in recent memory to bear a botanically-inspired name
These shops deliberately go out to hire psychopaths, and then they fire the ones who go soft, while promoting the most aggressive assholes, keeping a few smooth-talking client-relationship types on hand to preserve some semblance of a respectable public face
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