We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.
A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier....
I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs I will come home to find the dogs have been ... given a swim in the abov...
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...
The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.
One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.