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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
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Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.
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We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.
