Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.
Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.