(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.