Democracy Requires A Certain Relish For Confusion

As They Say Around The Texas Legislature, If You Can't Drink Their Whiskey, Screw Their Women, Take Their Money, And Vote Against 'em Anyway, You Don't Belong In Office.

Many A Time Freedom Has Been Rolled Back - And Always For The Same Sorry Reason: Fear.

I'm Sorry That Government Involves Filling Out A Lot Of Forms. ... I'm Sorry Myself That We're Not Still On The Frontier, Where We Could All Tote Guns, Shoot Anything That Moved And Spit To Our Hearts' Content. But We Live In A Diverse And Crowded Country, And With Civilization Comes Regulation.

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.

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.