All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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