We are all precancerous.

That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.