"I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd." — Rachel Maddow

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.