For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.