Don't Wait Until You're Not Afraid Of

We'll Have To Reclaim The Ward 'taxes.' Why Has It Become A Synonym For 'evil'? I Understand That No One Likes To Pay Good Money For Nothing. But Fire And Police Protection Aren't Nothing. ... Roads, Bridges, Airports, And Mass Transit Systems Aren't Nothing. National Parks, Clean Air, And Clear Water Aren't Nothing. A Safe Food Supply, Functioning Schools With Well-trained Teachers, And Well-equipped Hospitals Aren't Vaporous Apparitions Either.

The Crisis In America That We Barely Notice Anymore Is That We've Become Two Nations - Divided By Poverty, Opportunity, And Race. It's Like A Neighbor's Car Alarm That We Don't Hear Anymore Because It Rings So Often.

We're Proud To Offer A Wide Variety Of Bloggers From A Wide Variety Of Fields. Some Are Well-known, Some Are Unknown - But All Have Something Interesting To Say. And We Cover Everything From Politics, To Entertainment, To Media, To Business, To Style, To Green, To Our Upcoming Launch Of A Technology Page - It's Why We Call Huffpost "the Internet Newspaper."

The Key Question Facing Those Of Us Working In The Media (old And New) Is Whether We Embrace And Adapt To The Radical Changes Brought About By The Internet Or Pretend That We Can Somehow Hop Into A Journalistic Way Back Machine And Return To A Past That No Longer Exists And Can't Be Resurrected. There Is No Question That, As The Industry Moves Forward And We Figure Out The New Rules Of The Road, There Will Be - And Needs To Be - A Great Deal Of Experimentation With New Revenue Models.

America Being Behind France In Upward Mobility Is A Little Bit Like France Being Behind America In Croissants And Afternoon Sex.