August 12, 2004

» Al-Qaeda thinks it'd be unfair to kill more than four million non-combatants or render more than ten million homeless. So that's alright, then.

In killing Americans who are ordinarily off limits, Muslims should not exceed four million non-combatants, or render more than ten million of them homeless. We should avoid this, to make sure the penalty [that we are inflicting] is no more than reciprocal. God knows what is best.

» Doping in sport: inevitable, universal, increasingly subtle and increasingly undetectable - isn't it about time to concede defeat in this particularly spurious corner of the "war on drugs"? At least they don't use whiskey and strychnine any more