There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.