Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.