The Idea That If You Don’t Like

If Immigration Reform Passes, It'll Be A Big Victory For Sanity - Nobody Really Believes It's Healthy For A Country To Have Millions And Millions Of Undocumented Noncitizens Living In The Shadows. But It'll Also Be A Sign That The Republican Party Has Gotten Tired Of Letting The Tea Party Push It Around.

You Hear Younger Women Say, 'i Don't Believe I'm A Feminist. I Believe Women Should Have Equal Right And I Believe In Fighting For The Rights Of Other Women, But I'm Certainly Not A Feminist. No, No, Not That!' It's Just A Word. If You Called It 'fred' Would It Be Better?

For Years I've Been Hearing 20-somethings Say They Don't Expect Social Security To Be Around When They Hit 65. Eventually, I Came To Realize That They Really Mean That They Just Don't Expect To Be 65. Or 40. Neither Did I, When I Was 22.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

The Tea Party People Say They're Angry About Socialism, But Maybe They're Really Angry About Capitalism. If There's A Sense Of Being Looked Down Upon, It's That Sense Of Failure That's Built Into A System That Assures Everyone They Can Make It To The Top, But Then Reserves The Top For Only A Tiny Fraction Of The Strivers.