I don't think Romney is wacky at all but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri and will be again.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri and will be again.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

In the grip of a neurological disorder I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

In the grip of a neurological disorder I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics it won't give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics it won't give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.