Napoleon said, “The main use of religion is to keep the common people from murdering the rich. - Garrison Keillor

One problem is that here in the Twin Cities it’s hard to find that many freaks — at least, any who care to come on TV and talk about it,” said Fielding. “We don’t have a reliable supply of cross-dressers, hermaphrodites, eunuchs, or geeks. We have plenty of alcoholics, but how interesting are they? They don’t remember anything. This is Minnesota, we’re a journalistically challenged state. I mean, when was the last time a band of Lutherans holed up in a compound with automatic weapons? We don’t have that here.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

I feel like a blind man searching a dark room.
(Old Man Alone on Labor Day Weekend — blog post)