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.

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.

Conservatives Are Fond Of Pointing Out There Are Problems In This World Can't Be Solved By Throwing Money At Them. There Are Even More That Can't Be Solved By Dropping Bombs On Them.

There Are Two Kinds Of Humor. One Kind That Makes Us Chuckle About Our Foibles And Our Shared Humanity -- Like What Garrison Keillor Does. The Other Kind Holds People Up To Public Contempt And Ridicule -- That's What I Do. 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.

What Stuns Me Most About Contemporary Politics Is Not Even That The System Has Been So Badly Corrupted By Money. It Is That So Few People Get The Connection Between Their Lives And What The Bozos Do In Washington And Our State Capitols.