In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.
P. J. O'RourkePolitics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
P. J. O'RourkeCollectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.
P. J. O'RourkeIf you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.
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