The Thing Is This: You Got To

You Can't Ignore Politics, No Matter How Much You'd Like To.

Some Days, I'd Feel Better With Punxsutawney Phil In The Oval Office - At Least He Doesn't Lie About The Weather.

The Impulse To Make Ourselves Safer By Making Ourselves Less Free Is An Old One ... When We Are Badly Frightened, We Think We Can Make Ourselves Safer By Sacrificing Some Of Our Liberties. We Did It During The Mccarthy Era Out Of Fear Of Communism. Less Liberty Is Regularly Proposed As A Solution To Crime, To Pornography, To Illegal Immigration, To Abortion, To All Kinds Of Threats.

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.

The Trouble With Blaming Powerless People Is That Although It's Not Nearly As Scary As Blaming The Powerful, It Does Miss The Point. Poor People Do Not Shut Down Factories... Poor People Didn't Decide To Use 'contract Employees' Because They Cost Less And Don't Get Any Benefits.