Pain is the body's way of showing us we're bone-heads. A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not unt… - P. J. O'Rourke

Incidentally, there's a balanced position that all of America's presidential candidates could take on the controversial abortion issue. If they want votes they shouldn't campaign to make abortion illegal or legal. They should campaign to make it retroactive. If a kid reaches 25 and he or she is still jobless, feckless, and sitting around Starbucks acting like a — no offense — European, then whack.

People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.