We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roma… - Gore Vidal

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife.

Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.