Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but...

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but...

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another...

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign...

America is addicted to wars of distraction

America is addicted to wars of distraction

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a...

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of...

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of...

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that...

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in...

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in...