As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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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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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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