Whenever You Bring Up Women's Internal Workings,

It's Possible That You Have Been Told A Time Or 10 That You Don't Appreciate How Tough Your Elders Had It. It's True That, If You Had Been Coming Of Age Back In, Say, 1960, You Would Probably Be Feeling More Restricted, If Only Because You Were Doomed To Spend Your Days In A Skirt, Nylon Stockings And Girdle.

Take Hispanic Voters. They Favor Democrats Because They Like The Party's Programs, From Health Care Reform To Government Spending On Education. It's Not Because The Republicans Don't Have A Big Enough Office Of Hispanic Outreach.

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, There Was Only One Or Two First Ladies In All Of American History Who Made An Impact, Who People Could Even Have Recognized Or Identified. And It's Really Only Been Since Jackie Kennedy That There's Been This Idea That The Family Life Of The President Is Such A Central Thing.

I Just Really Like Houston Despite Its Craziness. There Is A Sense Of Energy And A Kind Of Excitement, 'we're Going Places And God Knows What'll Happen Next.' It's Very Interesting. It's Very Exciting.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.