I Dearly Love The State Of Texas,

Nothing Like A Few Restful Weeks Contemplating The Decline Of Civilization To Restore The Humors. What I Did On My Summer Vacation Was Listen To A Lot Of People Talk About The Decline Of Practically Everything - You Could Call It The Leisure Of The Theory Class.

Either We Figure Out How To Keep Corporate Cash Out Of The Political System Or We Lose The Democracy.

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.

I Think Most Of Us Become Nicer As We Get Older, Less Judgmental, Less Full Of Certitude; Life Tends To Knock A Few Corners Of Us As We Go Through. Cancer, Divorce, Teenagers, And Other Plagues Make Us Give Up On Expecting Ourselves - Or Life - To Be Perfect, Which Is A Real Relief.

How The American Right Managed To Convince Itself That The Programs To Alleviate Poverty Are Responsible For The Consequences Of Poverty Will Someday Be Studied As A Notorious Mass Illusion.