Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.