On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!