Democracy Requires A Certain Relish For Confusion

Being Slightly Paranoid Is Like Being Slightly Pregnant - It Tends To Get Worse.

You Can't Ignore Politics, No Matter How Much You'd Like To.

How The American Right Managed To Convince Itself That The Programs To Alleviate Poverty Are Responsible For The Consequences Of Poverty Will Someday Be Studied As A Notorious Mass Illusion.

Imagine Wasting All That Perfectly Good Anger On Paranoid Fantasies. Not Since Emily Litella Got Upset About "soviet Jewelry" Has There Been Such A Waste Of Anger. You Will Notice A Certain Theme To These Emily Litella Moments. Behind Them All Is A Touching Faith That Someone, Somewhere Is Actually In Charge Of What's Happening - A Proposition I Beg Leave To Doubt.

I Am Not Anti-gun. I'm Pro-knife. Consider The Merits Of The Knife. In The First Place, You Have To Catch Up With Someone In Order To Stab Him. A General Substitution Of Knives For Guns Would Promote Physical Fitness. We'd Turn Into A Whole Nation Of Great Runners. Plus, Knives Don't Ricochet. And People Are Seldom Killed While Cleaning Their Knives.