We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit).

Having a purpose is one thing, but the quickening is a total animation of passion.

your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.

Is a lie still a lieif you say it pretty?

Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

He was screaming like my wife.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.