I Prefer Someone Who Burns The Flag

When Politicians Start Talking About Large Groups Of Their Fellow Americans As 'enemies,' It's Time For A Quiet Stir Of Alertness. Polarizing People Is A Good Way To Win An Election, And Also A Good Way To Wreck A Country.

I Think Most Of Us Become Nicer As We Get Older, Less Judgmental, Less Full Of Certitude; Life Tends To Knock A Few Corners Of Us As We Go Through. Cancer, Divorce, Teenagers, And Other Plagues Make Us Give Up On Expecting Ourselves - Or Life - To Be Perfect, Which Is A Real Relief.

The Founders Were Right All Along, But The Results Are A Lot Funnier Than They Intended.

Most Of Us Think Of Government As Them. Yet Government Isn't Them: It's Us.

During A Recent Panel On The Numerous Failures Of American Journalism, I Proposed That Almost All Stories About Government Should Begin: “look Out! They're About To Smack You Around Again!