The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Satire doesn't effect change.

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.