From Hating Hillary For Being A Witch To Hating The Donald For Being A Bitch

"Do you think there was a kind of desire, to believe in a conspiracy of the liberal elite, all misbehaving in gross ways that ordinary folks could never think about?"

- Andrew Marr to Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, David Schoen

"Certainly, rationality is beleaguered these days. This is one of the last major newspapers in the country not to publish a horoscope,...non-science, nonsense, the elevation of emotion over fact, is on the rise, whether it's the extraordinary faith in homeopathy or the voodoo economics of the neoliberal right or the healing power of crystals. To read here of Tony and Cherie Blair's rebirthing experience in a Mexican mud bath in 2001 is to be torn between contempt and hilarity. 

That our leaders for the past 25 years or so have been as cretinous as anyone else who believes there are fairies at the bottom of their garden is not exactly consoling. The powerful are protected from the consequences of their credulity; we are not."

- Nicholas Lezard, in a 2004 review for "How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions" by Francis Wheen