There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
From P. J. O'Rourke
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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