Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O'ROURKELike most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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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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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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