Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.