You Know, I Really Miss Sex Scandals.

[ella Baker]'s Second Defining Characteristic Was Her Dislike Of Top-down Leadership... 'she Felt Leaders Were Not Appointed But The Rose Up. Someone Will Rise. Someone Will Emerge'. It Was An Attitude Baker Shared With Some Of The Older Women In The Movement.

The Irs Targeting Certain Groups For Harassment Because Of Their Politics Would Be Unfair. If We Found Out The Nsa Was Keeping Special Tabs On Everyone Who Worshiped At A Mosque Or Took A Bible Trip Through The Middle East, You'd Have An Uprising.

I Don't Think The Folks In The Low-tax States Really Want To Go Into A Fairness Discussion. Residents Of Connecticut And New York Would Love To Remind Them How Much They Pay In Federal Taxes To Support Programs For Mississippi And South Dakota.

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.

I Have Always Believed The Iron Rule Of Politics Was That Women Don't Vote For Men Who Yell.