My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.