Manners Are Just A Formal Expression Of

Nice Is A Pallid Virtue. Not Like Honesty Or Courage Or Perseverance. On The Other Hand, In A Nation Notably Lacking In Civility, There Is Much To Be Said For Nice.

Being Slightly Paranoid Is Like Being Slightly Pregnant - It Tends To Get Worse.

We Are The People Who Run This Country. We Are The Deciders. And Every Single Day, Every Single One Of Us Needs To Step Outside And Take Some Action To Help Stop This War. Raise Hell. Think Of Something To Make The Ridiculous Look Ridiculous. Make Our Troops Know We're For Them And Trying To Get Them Out Of There. Hit The Streets To Protest Bush's Proposed Surge. If You Can, Go To The Peace March In Washington On Jan. 27. We Need People In The Streets, Banging Pots And Pans And Demanding, 'stop It, Now!'

Populism Is The Simple Premise That Markets Need To Be Restrained By Society And By A Democratic Political System. We Are Not Socialists Or Communists, We Are Proponents Of Regulated Capitalism And, I Might Add, People Who Have Read American History.

If You Really Wanted To Settle Down The Middle East, If What You Wanted Was Change In The Middle East, It Is Perfectly Obvious That The First Step Is Resolving The Israeli/palestinian Conflict.