Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.