The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.