What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.