Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce


Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
Anonymous

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun



It’s been brought to my attention that various persons who post to the Fortean Times message board have taken monstrous umbrage at my characterization of Richard Dawkins as an “unimaginative and ill-informed buffoon”. Some seem not to have read with much (as in, any) attention the response I made in the correspondence column of FT 237.