“God made man in his own image.  We are going to become one with God.  We are going to have almost as much knowledge and almost as much power as God.  Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in becoming one with God.”

In one sense, the atheist might believe in natural moral law; in another sense, he already believes in it; in yet a third sense, he cannot believe in it.

One party, with a few exceptions, really doesn’t care much about the poor.  The other party wants to convert the poor into a permanent constituency of hopelessly dependent and utterly demoralized nonproductive consumers who vote for the hand that feeds them.  Both parties want to feel good about it.

Many statists do not know that they are statists.  A good many people who call themselves libertarians, for example, voted for Mr. Obama.

Some errors are terribly hard to discover and correct during one’s own lifetime, just because one is so invested in them.  Change cannot come until the next generation.  The natural consequences of these errors are the feedback loop.

This just in.  Hindu comic books (did you know there were Hindu comic books?) are changing traditional Hindu iconography.  The new trend is to make gods look like Western action heroes.

“‘In a little square garden of yellow roses, beside the sea,’ said Auberon Quin, "there was a Nonconformist minister who had never been to Wimbledon.  His family did not understand his sorrow or the strange look in his eyes.  But one day they repented their neglect, for they heard that a body had been found on the shore, battered, but wearing patent leat

Checks and balances delay the advent of certain political wrongs, but eventually the ball can't be kicked down the road any further.

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