Good Thing We've Still Got

We Are The People Who Run This Country. We Are The Deciders. And Every Single Day, Every Single One Of Us Needs To Step Outside And Take Some Action To Help Stop This War. Raise Hell. Think Of Something To Make The Ridiculous Look Ridiculous. Make Our Troops Know We're For Them And Trying To Get Them Out Of There. Hit The Streets To Protest Bush's Proposed Surge. If You Can, Go To The Peace March In Washington On Jan. 27. We Need People In The Streets, Banging Pots And Pans And Demanding, 'stop It, Now!'

So Keep Fighting For Freedom And Justice, Beloveds.

Havin' Fun While Freedom Fightin' Must Be One Of Those Lunatic Texas Traits We Get From The Water - Which Is Known To Have Lithium In It - Because It Goes All The Way Back To Sam Houston, Surely The Most Lovable, The Most Human, And The Funniest Of All The Great Men This Country Has Ever Produced.

The Recent Death Of Gene Mccarthy Reminded Me Of A Lesson I Spent A Long, Long Time Unlearning, So Now I Have To Re-learn It. It's About Political Courage And Heroes, And When A Country Is Desperate For Leadership. There Are Times When Regular Politics Will Not Do, And This Is One Of Those Times.

Satire Is Traditionally The Weapon Of The Powerless Against The Powerful.