A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.

Some chud on Twitter said The Wall Street Journal was liberal propaganda. (pejorative)

Therapy has almost eliminated violence, and people are divided into groups — the therapied and the un-therapied.

There are two excusatory phrases in the criminal justice lexicon which provoke in me immediate suspicion, especially when used by government ministers or the police. One is there are safeguards, the other innocent people have nothing to fear.