A Speech Is Poetry: Cadence, Rhythm, Imagery,

Morals Are Concerned With What Aids Or Impedes The Fulfillment Of Basic Human Needs.

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.

The Democratic Party Will Now Stick With Its Guy Forever, No Matter How Harmful He Is. Perhaps You Call That Loyalty, And Perhaps There's Something To It, But A Bigger Part, I Believe, Is That You Have Come To Think That Winning Is Everything-that Victory Is The Purpose Of Politics.

We Must Try Again To Be Alive To What The People Of Our Country Really Long For In Our National Life: Forgiveness And Grace, Maturity And Wisdom. ...our Political Leaders Will Know Our Priorities Only If We Tell Them, Again And Again, And If Those Priorities Begin To Show Up In The Polls.

My Generation, Faced As It Grew With A Choice Between Religious Belief And Existential Despair, Chose Marijuana. Now We Are In Our Cabernet Stage.