Stupidity is a tough, fecund thing, like crabgrass.

Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.

I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.

So here I am, a white man telling Black children to not give white people the benefit of the doubt. It’s not prejudice I’m giving them, it’s survival. Don’t talk to strangers. Don’t trust white folk you don’t know. Don’t trust cops. The basics. When Black folk don’t want to walk right up and be my friend, I don’t take it personally, and I don’t get defensive. And I’ll tell other thin-skinned white people the same thing. It’s not personal. It’s survival. Get used to it, and quit whining.

American culture is a sheep culture – long on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity. Most still believe that individuality is based on which model car you like best – commodity identity, a selection of personalities on a shelf full of products approved by the Federal Identity Administration. I’m a Taurus aspiring to be a Lexus.

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)

Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti

I would be very suspicious of anyone who claimed to have THE solution.

I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.