You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

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

Of course, it has never paid much.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.