There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.