Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

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