The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.