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.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

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.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.