Naturally, 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?

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.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

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

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

Naturally, 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?