The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
From P. J. O'Rourke
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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.
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