I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.