We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

The Democratic party should say, "Thank you very much, but you know what, we're going back to be a big-tent party. Broad on social issues like this, we are declaring, go with your heart if you truly feel that you can be, that you are pro-life, and you wanna be pro-life, and a Democrat, go for it." The Democratic party has I think been hurt very badly in terms of its national reputation with this narrow, sort of, you can't be in our party if you don't hold the right views on abortion. It would be a brilliant political move if they opened up.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Read good, big important things.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.