Not a day goes by that I don’t click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn’t already exist, somebody would have to invent it.

Now that we’re essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we’re divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It’s as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don’t know what these guys think they’re doing, but it looks like they’re committing political suicide.

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close “relations” which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn’t be more alien to most of us.

The last vestiges of the strength he got from his handling of 9/11 are gone.

A lot of members of Congress just like to hear themselves. They want to issue a press release back home. They want to make a little bit of a splash in the local papers, local TV stations, (but) most of these things aren't going to be enacted into law.

A less visible part of the damage done by Katrina may be what's happened to the President's approval rating.

By an eight-point margin, voters are now more likely to call themselves Democrats than Republicans; there was no gap in self-identification a year ago.

They know they have horrible problems and they came up with the least risky move they could make.

The visuals coming out of Hurricane Katrina suddenly took issues he was pushing and put them front and center,