I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.