That's one reason there's so much drug abuse: people are not shown other ways to alter their consciousness. All we have is the mall and the video rental shop; that's our cultural experience, our museums.

It's another instance of abuse of people who speak out against the government, for whatever reason. They silence critics and find various ways of punishing them.

Detectives were aware of a quite horrific child abuse case and when they arrived at the house, they obviously found signs of this abuse that had been going on. They immediately separated the girl from the two people she was living with.

I'm suggesting that [Bush] is Saddam Hussein, the evil-doer.

What I wanted was to explore various different levels of the comfort-crisis aspect of the nation. It's like Greek tragedy; [Bush and Stewart] are feminine and masculine versions of us. There's humor in it, but I think their transgressions are most important -- are their attempts to organize their pathologies: for George, the psychotic, and for Martha, the neurotic.

I will be looking at the FCC content restrictions on Howard Stern,