There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.

Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them. But with his pixie-ish perm, Paul does not impress me as the gunslinger type. Rand Paul is the RuPaul of politics. He would do better to defend his right to carry an unregistered blow-dryer and curling irons.

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

Trump appeals to the disaffected by loudly trumpet-ing what they want to hear: other people are always the problem, and the solution is to either put them in their proper place or get rid of them.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.