Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.