Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.

Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

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