The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.

Los Angeles is many places in one place.