Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
P. J. O'ROURKEThere isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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The 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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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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