Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.