Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.