What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

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

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

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

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.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?