Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and read more

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy read more

In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.

When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that read more

When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that Beethoven he'd play that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up read more

The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up to. They purposefully set us up to admire and even covet something we can never have.

fed up with being their whipping boy.

fed up with being their whipping boy.

Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!

Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... read more

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.