Dialogue Enthusiast Gifts

'Say what you will about E-mail, video-conferencing and the like... There's still no substitute for a good face-to-face business meeting.'

Burkini Controversy

An old cliche comes under fire from yet another special interest group.

"I'm sorry – here I am going on and on and I haven't asked you a thing about being caught in a trap."

The unfortunate night there were two talking sticks at the conflict resolution meeting.

Atheist Convention: 'I don't believe it!'

"Well, I don't call my mindset a narrow-minded prejudiced filter bubble. I call it my happy place."

"I've learned to give up when I hear Brooklyn in your voice."

"I disagree — I think humans are funny."

I heard you've to an awful, mysterious pain in the side of your face. Yeah. You can try the modern approach, drug yourself silly so you don't feel the pain. You know a better way, Sadie? Well, in your case, I'd suggest going with the tried and true cure-all: Drill a hole in your head to let out the demons. No need. You're already out. That's ... Well-played, nemesis. Well-played.

Battle of the sexes in a relationship

"Race along is an absurd, arbitrary and nonsensical reason to hate someone."

'Let's face it, marriage isn't just a word it's a sentence!'

Thinking about Peace

The Power of the Pen

"Let's just put a pin in our conversation until you get a better handle on that white fragility thing."

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

"Oh, I'll be bi-partisan alright, punishing both sides of the aisle."

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

We Tenatively Oppose War on Strictly Procedural Grounds

"Don't even interact with him. He just likes to say 'Kalamazoo.'"

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

'The meek shall inherit the debt. The rich shall inherit the loopholes.'

"I'm not weird I'm a 'person of weirdness'."

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Oligarchy

Annual run-off at the mouth.

Dialogue

"Could I ask just one question?"

Ahem. I'm eating. Not now, please. Just one tiny question. Believers I American exceptionalism have always said we're the paragon of democracy. So I'm just wondering … How come one party is passing unnecessary laws that'll keep millions of us from voting? They're robbing us of our voice! Could've surprised me.

"That's the last time I'm going to allow politics to be discussed in the office."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

'Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially when you're majoring in Law.'

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

'I'm a vegetarian.' - 'If it's so wrong to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?'