Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

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.

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Cars would be safer on rails!