I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.