Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.

If life is simple being alone, why make it complicated by marriage or by meeting more and more people.