Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families.