If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

Love does not conquer all.

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted.

Greed can overtake smart.

If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.

New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.