Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

Bill Maher can be pretty good, except when he gets "important." Maher's all over the place politically.

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.

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.

The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.