Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.