You got to Dance with Them What Brung You

by Molly Ivins

Great fun. Still on my way through it, but it's set up in nice little chunks that make for quick reading. Texas (liberal) political commentary, and hilarious.

"The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one, even here. When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as as solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats. But we shall not let evil cowards make us less free.

Fanatics have always said, 'Things have to get worse before they can get better.' Such evil nonsense. And mothers have always replied, 'Not with my child's life.'"

"Hate speech is fertilizer for bombs."