The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Keep Smiling, Rock On!

Men don't fight for what is theirs. They work for it and they love it with all their hearts. When they do that, they want for nothing.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.