The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.