And I'm not getting laid! What am I doing wrong?
The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.
Many militant conflicts began with war-like words. The blame game is currently more popular in the EU than football. But maybe there is also a good side to this. We now talk more honestly and emotionally with each other. Not in the soulless Euro-lingo of earlier times.
Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.