This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.