Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energ….

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up t….

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order ….

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Part….

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I ….

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the g….

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today..

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds..

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society..

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance..

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missi….

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so..

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow..

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the aud….

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of pe….

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overl….

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wil….

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was ….

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between….

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits..

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions..