Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.