The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth…

When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
H.L. Mencken – Newpaper Days

Insurance, n. An ingenious modern game of chance…

For those not from the Pittsburgh area, when our last grown-up mayor had the ill manners to expire before his term did…

See, when the Government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of Taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably…

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. James Madison.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Robert A. Heinlein

As someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your Lieder. Tom Lehrer – from the song “Whatever Became of You, Hubert” from the album That Was the Year that Was OK, it’s an awful pun, but as my favorite teacher said, “Puns are the highest form of humor.” fiat lux!