Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

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

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.