Quote of the Day

| October 20, 2003

Peter Wood: … I am not among those anthropologists who think all expressions of the human spirit are intrinsically valuable. Some, like human sacrifice, are pretty disagreeable. And the human spirit that expresses itself in rhetorical attempts to dilute the enormity of Stalin’s Gulag, to revile President Bush, or to obfuscate the debate on efforts […]

Quote of the Day

| October 19, 2003

[P]ublic nudity is like karaoke. The people who are most enthusiastic are least qualified. Steve H., at Little Tiny Lies [Fortunately, I have no desire to do either karaoke or public nudity. Or nude karaoke, for that matter. Consider yourselves lucky.]