I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.