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I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.
As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.
I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.
Social justice warriors want to return to the Dark Ages when you communicated with a club instead of joining one.
We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.
Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did.
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.
92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.
The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.
Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.
Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.
When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?
Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.
By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.
The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.
The girls I dated liked or disliked me, whether I weighed 140 or 150; and six-pack abs had no relevance on their love or repulsion.
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.
I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.
The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.
I know that, often, people in entertainment are surrounded by 'yes' men who tell you everything is 'go.' That's never been an issue for me.
It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.
In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.
I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
I don't know if you get anything more adorable than a tiny pig eating an apple. And here's a fun fact. This is how you make apple-smoked bacon.
Trump has manufactured the first-ever Celebrity Immunity Bubble - rendering him incapable of offense, no matter whom he offends. It's brilliant.
The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that coming? I blame the golf.
How can you have a reasonable debate with people who are constantly changing the panic? They are moving the panic to a greater wave of hysteria?
The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.
Imagine Earth as a crime-ridden town, and there is one safe house. How do you keep that safe house, America, always safe? It is called vigilance.
What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.
There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.
It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.
Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there?
Imagine if today, they invented a religion that advocated the killing of gays. We would not tolerate that. However, Islam is a religion that advocates that.
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.
Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.
As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.
Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.
FNM didn't really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I'd had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.