Mo Rocca

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.