It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.