We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.