Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless i… - Al Franken

Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States.

No, turning the public arena into a wasteland of personal destruction takes an army of like-minded ideologues helll-bent on shredding the already tattered standards of decency that once permitted reasonable discourse on matters of import.

Net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time. Today, a blog can load as fast as the Wall Street Journal — and, if the blog is good, it can get more traffic than any media conglomerate. But if bigger companies can pay for faster, priority Internet access, that blogger no longer has a shot. And these big companies know that when they pay for access, they win. They want preferred treatment on the Internet like the preferred treatment they get in the rest of their lives.