“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.” Hands now: How many of you wish that voters had taken President Herbert Hoover up on the words above, shared with Congress in 1930? Matters would become so bleak, that depression earning a capital D, that Hoover’s Republican predecessor,…
“I wonder what his ex-wife is thinking, knowing she put him over the top in South Carolina.” My wife, who said this, wasn’t being serious, of course. Who could profit from his ex-wife telling a national audience about him making a teensy weensy request: to mess around on her? This just before…
The best line so far in the 2012 presidential derby? This from Joe Klein: “Authenticity is rapidly becoming a euphemism for simple ignorance. (Herman) Cain was authentic; Sarah Palin was authentic. Elitists — people who have actually studied complicated stuff and become experts at it — are phonies. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.” …
Whenever she sees gratuitous spending, my wife thinks like a dog-cat lover. She thinks of the animal shelters that money could build. Don’t look now, but whole cities of animal shelters are being expended in legal fees by states across the country to promote and defend something Americans least need: noncompetitive, lock-cinch, party-rigged…
Let’s say your neighbor spent his working hours cooking methamphetamine. Let’s say that instead of cooking it in the basement, confining lethal fumes to his home-sweet four walls and his two incinerated lungs, your neighbor cooked meth as one would a backyard brisket: over your fence. Let’s say that, nauseated by the…