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

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

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

Of course, it has never paid much.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.