"Someone asked Sophocles, "How do you stand in respect to the pleasures of sex? Are you still capable of intercourse?" "Hush, sir," he said, "it gives me the greatest joy to have escaped the clutches of that savage and fierce master.""
-- Plato
"Many secular Iraqis feel betrayed by the Americans’ willingness to allow a Constitution based on Islamic law take hold in Iraq. Could it be that we were so rushed and so inept that an Iranian-style theocracy will de-evolve there? Or worse yet, civil war? If you’re a woman, intellectual, or a non-religious person in Iraq you’d better hope not…"
-- Jason Merchey
