I Never Saw Anything Funnier Than Texas

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

Good Thing We've Still Got Politics In Texas - Finest Form Of Free Entertainment Ever Invented.

It's All Very Well To Run Around Saying Regulation Is Bad, Get The Government Off Our Backs, Etc. Of Course Our Lives Are Regulated. When You Come To A Stop Sign, You Stop; If You Want To Go Fishing, You Get A License; If You Want To Shoot Ducks, You Can Shoot Only Three Ducks. The Alternative Is Dead Bodies At The Intersections, No Fish And No Ducks. Ok?

The Charm Of Ronald Reagan Is Not Just That He Kept Telling Us Screwy Things, It Was That He Believed Them All. No Wonder We Trusted Him, He Never Lied To Us. ... His Stubbornness, Even Defiance, In The Face Of Facts ('stupid Things,' He Once Called Them In A Memorable Slip) Was Nothing Short Of Splendid. ... This Is The Man Who Proved That Ignorance Is No Handicap To The Presidency.

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.