When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
AL FRANKENIt’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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