Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.