But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

The worst part, they agreed, was having to pretend to feelings they didn't have because that's what the Red People expected. We were a pair of comrades discussing a decade each of self-rape, Donna says, a pair of prostitutes talking trade.

Dr. Nick Riviera: I recommend a slow, steady gorging process, combined with assal horizontology.

The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.