When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dads limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it. – David Alan Grier
Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instants thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. – Christopher Hitchens