When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.