Humanism Is Not Alive And Well In

The Thing About Democracy, Beloveds, Is That It Is Not Neat, Orderly, Or Quiet. It Requires A Certain Relish For Confusion.

Next Time I Tell You Someone From Texas Should Not Be President Of The United States, Please Pay Attention.

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?

We 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.

I Think Provincialism Is An Endemic Characteristic With Mankind, I Think Everybody Everywhere Is Provincial, But It Is Particularly Striking With Texans, And We Tend To Be Very Texcentric.