If I Were A Person Of Color

Transitions Are A Part Of Life, Allowing For Perpetual Renewal. When You Experience The End Of One Chapter, Allow Yourself To Feel The Emotions Of Loss And Rebirth. A Bud Gives Way To A New Flower, Which Surrenders To The Fruit, Which Gives Rise To A Seed, Which Yields A New Sprout. Even As You Ride The Roller Coaster, Embrace The Centered Internal Reference Of The Ever-present Witness.

Not Only Did This New Pornography Industry Change The Way Men Look At Women And How We Relate To Sex, How We Sell Stuff, And Not Only Did It Change America's Cultural Landscape - It's Also This Incredible Metaphor For A Market-based Economy. The Great Pyramid Scheme That America Has Become. I Felt Like In Were Larger Themes In Terms Of Culture And Economics That Could Be Addressed.

I'm Making A Lot Of Money. I Should Be Paying A Lot More Taxes. I'm Not Paying Taxes At A Rate That Is Even Close To What People Were Paying Under Eisenhower. Do People Think America Wasn't Ascendant And Wasn't An Upwardly Mobile Society Under Eisenhower In The '50s? Nobody Was Looking At The Country Then And Thinking To Themselves, "we're Taxing Ourselves Into Oblivion." Yet There Isn't A Politician With Balls Enough To Tell That Truth Because The Whole System Has Been Muddied By The Rich. It's Been Purchased.

I Would Be Lying If I Said The Journalism Doesn't Reflect My Own Choices As A Reporter And A Writer: What To Say, What To Emphasize, How To Say It, What Is True Or Untrue.

Any Music Can Be Healing If It Inspires, Relaxes, Encourages Or Creates Enthusiasm For Life In You.