I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.
The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.
We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow us around the Internet will someday, with the click of a distant mouse, look like the jackboots of old.
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
I served in the Army. I worked at blue-collar jobs. I washed dishes and bused tables.
We are a segmented society, living in our individual bubbles.
It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.
Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.
Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.
I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that a woman's body is not her own.
It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?
I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.
In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.
