People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.
P. J. O'RourkeA good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.
P. J. O'RourkeGovernment conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
P. J. O'RourkeFamily love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'RourkeI try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.
P. J. O'RourkeWhen government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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