We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.