I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
P. J. O'RourkeI buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."
P. J. O'RourkeWhen I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
P. J. O'RourkeLiberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
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