The Thing About Democracy, Beloveds, Is That

I Think Provincialism Is An Endemic Characteristic With Mankind, I Think Everybody Everywhere Is Provincial, But It Is Particularly Striking With Texans, And We Tend To Be Very Texcentric.

Next Time I Tell You Someone From Texas Should Not Be President Of The United States, Please Pay Attention.

You Could Probably Prove, By Judicious Use Of Logarithms And Congruent Triangles, That Real Life Is A Lot More Like Soap Opera Than Most People Will Admit.

Reading Ehrenreich Is Good For The Soul.

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.