The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
Kids are disorganized.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
