There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

I bought my first house because of Animal House.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.