Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
P. J. O'ROURKEFamily love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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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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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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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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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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