It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.