Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

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

I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

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.

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.