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" Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. "

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" Writing is agony. I hate it. "

" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "

" My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. "

" Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! "

" Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. "

" We did not become libertarians because we are altruists. "

" There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election. "

" Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. "

" The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal. "

" You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. "

" The good thing about SUVs is they have storage. "

" Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. "

" When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me. "

" The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative. "

" You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be. "

" Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens. "

" The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. "

" I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm. "

" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "

" Fascism is very much a mob movement. "

" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "

" Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. "

" It's hard to be serious in life. "

" Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. "

" War diminishes both civil and economic rights. "

" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "

" Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. "

" Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire. "

" Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life. "