A Great Speech Is Literature.

But One Immediate Thing Can Be Done Right Now, And That Is: Lower The Temperature. Any Way You Can, And Everybody. Just Lower It.

At Some Point, Don't Voters Start To See All Of Public Life As One Big Polluted River? And If They Do, Don't They Stop Saying Things Like "that's A Busted Tire Floating By" And "that's An Old Shoe"?

The 2008 Election Settled Nothing, Not Even For A While. Our National Politics Are Reflecting What Appears To Be Going On Geologically, On The Bottom Of The Oceans And Beneath The Crust Of The Earth: The Tectonic Plates Are Moving.

I Was Sailing From Tedium To Apathy With A Side Trip To Torpor.

The Democratic Party's Complete Obeisance To [the Abortion] Lobby Makes Democrats Look Bought, Frightened And Craven.