Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

It may seem like I'm overlooking a technical detail or a spec change, but at the end of the day I'm mostly going to be talking about the final result, with a few exceptions.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.