“And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congen…” — Molly Ivins

The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.

Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.