Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.
Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.
I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.
All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.
To live in that place where both sides could at any moment turn on you? It leaves you in a very traumatic spot.