California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
Molly IvinsNaturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
Molly IvinsI don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
Molly IvinsWe often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
Molly Ivins