it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

If I thought I knew what was going to happen, it wouldn't be worth doing. The challenge is how joyfully, with what sense of fun and adventure and playfulness, we will greet it. We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.

I love making observations. That one is a classic example.

There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.