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

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.

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

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

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

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