The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.

If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my all-time favorite book about the war is the novel, "The Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara.