My Dad Called Me Meat Head Dead

I Started By Writing, With My Partner Ed Simmons, A Monologue For Danny Thomas, That He Performed At Ciro's Nightclub In Los Angeles.

I Looked At Enough Of American Idol In The First Weeks, And They're All About Humiliation. I Listen To Rush Limbaugh Because I Find It So Repulsive. There Are People With A Little Less Sophistication Who Watch A Lot Of It, Because We Allow Things To Appeal To Our Baser Instincts. But At The Same Moment, Give Me A Little Choice, And I'll Make A Better Decision, Because I Have That Ability Too. And So Does Everybody Else.

I Guess Because The Shows Were Activist In Their Own Way - The Marriage Of My Public Activism And My Career Activism, You Know - People Understand Me Very Well. They Also Understand There's A Very Strong Bipartisan Part In All Of This.

I Stop And Look At Traffic Accidents. I Won't Hang Around, But When I Hear Something Is Terrible, As Bad As It Is, I've Gotta Look At It.

... For All Our Alarm, It Is Clear That The Religious Right Is Responding To A Real Hunger In Our Society... A Deep-seated Yearning For Stable Values... When Conservative Christian Groups Talk Of Failures In Our Educational System, The Erosion Of Our Moral Standards, And The Waste Of Young Lives, They Are Addressing Real And Legitimate Concerns... Among Secularists, The Aversion Toward Discussion Of Moral Values, Let Alone Religion, Can Reach Absurd Extremes.