In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is...
You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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.
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then...
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.
I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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 m...
'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your ho...
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.