Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don’t say she will but she can.
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
On Leona Helmsley’s death
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
‘But the One on the Right,’ in New Yorker, 1929
On Bush’s desire to stay the course in Iraq
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
On Karl Rove
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Oh, don’t worry about [him] . . . [He] will always land on somebody’s feet.
On the widening gap between rich and poor
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
On the Senate passing the Children’s health insurance bill
Monday, August 6, 2007
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
On gambling
Monday, August 6, 2007
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
On the Republicans making the case for staying in Iraq
Monday, August 6, 2007
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
On the increase in the unemployment rate
Monday, August 6, 2007
Salary is no object; I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.