The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devo….

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other dr….

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility..

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial su….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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..

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….

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 ….