Occupation: Satirist Birth: November 14, 1947
It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the tr….
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics..
The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom..
Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife..
War will exist as long as there's a food chain..
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence..
The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts..
Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids..
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that….
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs..
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make….
The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!.
A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and le….
It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about pov….
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on….
Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did..
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of th….
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's….
Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed..
Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult perso….
With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us wh….