Maybe in the '90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the '80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to ...the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian ...steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi'ite fundamentalists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the p...oor because they had much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the re...ceiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering ...cathode-ray tube as Ollie "answers" questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »