I’m sorry, sir, but your empiricism is naïve in the extreme. As my friend Lyle Albaugh points out, the absence of empirical observations of the consequences of an atomic bomb being dropped on New York City does not prevent us from justifiably predicting massive death and destruction in Gotham should such a bomb be dropped.

“Once you have a job, salary and food. What is left? A wife.” Turkish Prime Minister told voters this past week, as he proposed government assistance for single Turkish men in need of spouses.