Two fun quotes

"I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat....[God] holds men strictly accountable for their actions....[Santa Claus] may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it....Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus." --P.J. O'Rourke

John Fund, a editorial-page deep thinker at the Wall Street Journal, sums up Cruz Bustamante, the Democrat who for a time led the polls in that strange California election:

"You could wade through his deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet."