I Believe That Ignorance Is The Root

Texas Is Not A Civilized Place. Texans Shoot One Another A Lot. They Also Knife, Razor, And Stomp One Another To Death With Some Frequency. And They Fight In Bars All The Time.

Texas Liberals Are The Camels Of Good News. We Can Cross Entire Deserts Between Oases.

It Is Quite Reasonable To Subscribe Both To The Old Saw That No Good Girl Was Ever Ruined By A Book And To The Perception That It Is Not Good For Children To Be Constantly Exposed To The Sexual Violence In Our Popular Culture. Protecting Children Seems To Me Logically, Legally, And Rather Easily Differentiated From Censorship.

The Recent Death Of Gene Mccarthy Reminded Me Of A Lesson I Spent A Long, Long Time Unlearning, So Now I Have To Re-learn It. It's About Political Courage And Heroes, And When A Country Is Desperate For Leadership. There Are Times When Regular Politics Will Not Do, And This Is One Of Those Times.

Oh, Hell, I Can’t Go On A Spiritual Journey—i'm Constipated.