Awakening Into Love Is A Lifelong Path.

What City Has Given The World More In Terms Of American Culture Than New Orleans? There Is None. Not New York. Not L.a. Not Chicago. Not Anywhere, In The Sense That African American Music Has Gone Around The World Twenty Times Over, And It's Continuing To Evolve. It Is Our Greatest Cultural Export.

Rural America's Not Coming Back. That Idea Was Lost With The Industrial Revolution.

You Have The Capacity To Change The Plotline Of Your Life, Even If You've Been Acting From The Same Script Since Before You Can Remember.

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.

Barack Obama's Understanding Of What The Drug War Had Cost The Country Was Meaningful. And Very Quietly In His Second Term, He And Eric Holder Did Make Some Adjustments In Terms Of The Use Of The Department Of Justice, On The Federal Level. You Saw Ratcheting Back Of Drug Prohibition, And Mass Incarceration. You Also Saw, On The Part Of Some Certain States, A Realization That They Followed The War On Drugs To A Useless Place, That They Were Only Doing Damage To Communities, And Bankrupting Budgets With Prison Construction.