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.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.