False hope really makes you cynical.

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway.

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.