Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

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

Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

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

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

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