When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

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."

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

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.