It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean.

Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.