The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Tone can be as important as text.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.