Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.