The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

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.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.