Welfare Is ... The Victim

What Do I Want To Take Home From My Summer Vacation? Time. The Wonderful Luxury Of Being At Rest. The Days When You Shut Down The Mental Machinery That Keeps Life On Track And Let Life Simply Wander. The Days When You Stop Planning, Analyzing, Thinking And Just Are. Summer Is My Period Of Grace.

Maybe At 20 You Can Write Well, But I Don't Think You Could Do What I Do. Some Things Have To Happen To You First.

Today, Much Of Journalism And Politics Are In A Kind Of Collusion To Oversimplify And Personalize Issues. No Room For Ambivalence. Plenty Of Room For The Personal Attack.

We May Never Know Why Joe Ellis Fabricated A Heroic Past. But We Know That The Life He Embellished Has Deeply Diminished The Life He'd Earned.

I Don't Know Exactly Why The Notion Of Homeownership Has Such A Grasp On The American Imagination. Perhaps As Descendants Of Landless Immigrants We Turn Our Plots Into Symbols Of Stability.