The Best #‎ Gift We Can Give

I'm Making A Lot Of Money. I Should Be Paying A Lot More Taxes. I'm Not Paying Taxes At A Rate That Is Even Close To What People Were Paying Under Eisenhower. Do People Think America Wasn't Ascendant And Wasn't An Upwardly Mobile Society Under Eisenhower In The '50s? Nobody Was Looking At The Country Then And Thinking To Themselves, "we're Taxing Ourselves Into Oblivion." Yet There Isn't A Politician With Balls Enough To Tell That Truth Because The Whole System Has Been Muddied By The Rich. It's Been Purchased.

Baltimore's Often Called The Most Northern Southern Town. It Has A Distinct Essence. It's Definitely Post-industrial, Definitely Rust Belt, Very Working-class. I Grew Up Outside Of Washington, And I Felt I Was Moving To A Completely Different Place When I Moved 30 Miles North Out Of College.

What Drugs Haven't Destroyed, The War Against Them Has

While I Think Storytelling Is A Meaningful Way To Spend Your Life... It Does Feel A Little Bit Secondary Or Off-point.

Homicide Is The Major Leagues, The Center Ring, The Show. It Always Has Been ... It Goes Beyond Academic Degrees, Specialized Training Or Book Learning, Because All The Theory In The World Means Nothing If You Can't Read The Street.