There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

[Donald] Trump is a fascist and that`s not a term I use loosely or often but he has earned it.

After Donald Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal, candidate Jeb Bush reacted by calling Mr. Trump unhinged. However, that would be the same Jeb Bush who says we should only allow refugees into this country who are Christians.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

Some people feel like stuff just happens to you and you cope as best you can. Some people feel like we can change what happens not only to ourselves but to other people. That's me, and I like that in anybody.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.