At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.