I always get a kick out of Thomas Sowell's Random Thoughts columns. Here are a few of my favorites from his latest edition:
Posted by dan at August 30, 2006 1:13 AM-- Little kids can be adorable when they are asleep. Or maybe we are just so glad that they are asleep that this biases our feelings.
-- It is staggering that anyone could be so self-infatuated as to single out their own particular policy preferences as "anti-war." Anyone who is not a sadist or an idiot is anti-war. The only serious issue is how best to limit, deter or conclude war. But responsibility for confronting this issue is evaded by those preoccupied with the moral preening of being "anti-war."
-- Some people are so busy being clever that they don't have time to be intelligent.
-- Increasing numbers of people seem to think that it is "name-calling" if you refer to someone as a liberal. There are no inherently negative connotations to the word "liberal." If it has acquired negative overtones, that is because of what liberals have done and the consequences that have followed.
-- I have never seen a skinny cook.