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

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

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.