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'ROURKEIdeology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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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.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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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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