You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.