Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.