Clearly, There Has Been A Lack Of

I Have Learned When Two Republicans Are Talking About Legalizing Drugs To Shut Up.

The American Public Has Been Delicately Insulated From The Actuality Of Our Ongoing Wars. While A Tiny Fraction Of Men And Women Fighting Our Wars Are Deploying Again And Again, Civilian Life Remains Pretty Much Isolated In Cost-free Complacency.

Gay People - Generally Speaking - Have A Responsibility To Our Own Community And To Future Generations Of Gay People To Come Out, If And When We Feel That We Can.

If You're Working On Better Conditions For Prisoners, If You Make That A Popular Issue And You Invite Mainstream Media To Weigh In On That Subject, You're Going To End Up With A Much More Regressive Public-policy Environment Than If You Approach It In A Quieter Way. It's Not Because The Public Is Stupid, It's Just That People With Only A Cursory Interest In Something Are Going To Have A Knee-jerk Reaction To It. That's Impossible To Explain In A Cable-news Media... It Doesn't Make Sense.

We Are Willing To Follow Leaders Only To The Extent We Believe They Call On Our Best, Not Our Worst.