So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.