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

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

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

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.