The pressure to compete, the fear SOMEBODY ELSE will MAKE the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and SERIOUS questions MAY not be raised.

As I was BORN to be UNFORTUNATE, my SUN SOON clouded.

There is a FRUSTRATION too, that at MOMENTS when there's not a coup, when there are not PEOPLE in the streets, that the COUNTRY disappears from people's consciousness.

I've ALWAYS been ATTRACTED to ACTION STUFF.

Americans PAY up to 1,000 PERCENT more to FILL their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming STATISTIC.

Investors have few spare tires left. THINK of the IMAGE of a car on a bumpy road to an UNCERTAIN destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Clearly, the OIL spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their FAMILIES are SUFFERING, and it's also an ECONOMIC tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a DIFFERENT type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.

So MANY of us have FRIENDS or family who have battled CANCER, and we know how important it is to FIND a cure.

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't REALLY transphobic,' Just LIKE you will always have some black FOLKS defending some white person for using the 'N' WORD because they are 'cool.'

Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better CHANCE of connecting with future generations than those who simply FOLLOW TRANSIENT trends. At least their work will have a distinctive CHARACTER, and this is what people respond to, I believe.