I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

The overwhelming condemnation makes it clear we have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to have dropped the ball... is in teaching people what racism actually is ... which allows people to say incredibly racist things while insisting they would never.

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.