The popular image of dictatorships is nasty but efficient, Whereas they are mostly nasty, and mostly incompetent. (View Post)

US Libertarians think he’s a martyr, presumably on the ground that drug trafficking is a legitimate business activity. (View Post)

I’d probably rate genocide, famine, and war as more important challenges. (View Post)

It's a great quote, and also one that applies more widely. The "Softboy", will loudly proclaim his hostility towards all forms of sexism, and insist upon the need to "believe all … (View Post)

He might. Then again, His views on both divorce and adultery were more hardline than the norm of His time and place (and more hardline than contemporary norms). He would have no tolerance for the mod… (View Post)