Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
