I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.
I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.
