As It Stands Now, Those Of Us

Sometimes When I Listen To Fellow Progressives, I Wonder If The Only Lesson We Took Away From The '04 Elections Is That Politics Is A Word Game.

When Bryan Price Taught Me How To Throw A Changeup, He Made Me See Myself. All My Life, I've Been The Equivalent Of A Fastball Pitcher - Trying To Use Blazing Speed And Brute Force To Wow The People Around Me.

We All Want Merit To Mean Something, And We All May Be Tempted To Reduce That Meaning To Something Measurable And Concrete Like An Sat Score. The Reality, Though, Is That Who Deserves Entry Into An Institution Depends On What The Institution Exists To Do.

Jeremy Lin Is The Only Asian American In The Nba Today And One Of The Few In Any Professional U.s. Sport. His Arrival Is Surely Leading Other Talented Asian American Athletes This Week To Contemplate A Pro Career.

The Strongest Streak In The American Character Is A Fierce Pragmatism That Mistrust Blind Ideology Of Every Stripe And Insists On Finding What Really Works.