They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?