The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
P. J. O'ROURKEAlways read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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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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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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