I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered - but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president. Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.