To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

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

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

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