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

I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

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

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.