Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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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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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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