Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

I am a great admirer of women.

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

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is "America's ex-wife."

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.