An Inconvenient Truth isn't just a movie. It's not just an inconvenience. It is the new reality defining the task before us, defining the enemy, on which a new consensus must be built.

Consensus is fairly rare, but it's the most transformative force our politics has.

Freedom at its heart is the assumption that given freedom men and women will use it wisely.

Using a life process to create an obviously inorganic compound means the same process might be used to create other large-scale nanoparticles, from other materials. It's hyberbole to say Zubarev has found a way to create inorganic nano-life, but it is a step in that process.

I figure my pony plan is as good as anyone's. And it's got its priority in the right place. With the troops. Support the troops. Stop getting them killed for no reason. We owe them that.

If you go from Election Night straight into campaign mode you don't understand the first thing about politics, which is that it's not a football game. It's policy.

There is something to be said for not wasting our best and bravest. There is something to be said for treating those who do waste them, or who advocate wasting them, as politically beyond-the-pale.

Don't let the mass media hype get you down. There are going to be plenty of ways to build small companies based on the economics of abundance.

Look, I'm all for shopping online. I do it often. I'm going to do it today. But I'm not going to do it on someone else's clock. I'm going to go home, get in my jammies, find a nice beverage, and then consult my list.

We have to find a consensus that leads to fundamental change in our attitudes. The crisis which will force such a change in attitudes is coming. The change must be managed in the direction of creation, not destruction, or our grandchildren will have no world -- rich, poor or middle class -- to inherit.