P. J. O'Rourke

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.