...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

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.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.