In The Wake Of Katrina, What You're

You Are Worthy Of Love And You Deserve To Be Happy. You Have These Beautiful Qualities And Many More Because You Are Living The Gift Of A Human Incarnation. My Hope Is That You Will Embrace These Truths And Your Birthright To Live A Life Abundant In Love, Joy, And Celebration.

Rural America's Not Coming Back. That Idea Was Lost With The Industrial Revolution.

Homicide Is The Major Leagues, The Center Ring, The Show. It Always Has Been ... It Goes Beyond Academic Degrees, Specialized Training Or Book Learning, Because All The Theory In The World Means Nothing If You Can't Read The Street.

In Baltimore They Can't Do Police Work To Save Their Lives. Now Because Of Freddie Gray They're Not Even Getting Out Of The Car And Policing Corners - They're On A Job Slowdown, Basically. Right Now If The Police Stopped Being Brutal, If We Got Police Shooting Under Control, And The Use Of Excessive Force, If We Have A Meaningful Societal Response To All That Stuff, And The Racism That Underlies It, The Question Still Remains: What Are They Policing, And Why?

Baltimore's Often Called The Most Northern Southern Town. It Has A Distinct Essence. It's Definitely Post-industrial, Definitely Rust Belt, Very Working-class. I Grew Up Outside Of Washington, And I Felt I Was Moving To A Completely Different Place When I Moved 30 Miles North Out Of College.