We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.