Social Norms

For soft cultures in good times, dispensing with social norms is easy. In hard times, you may have need of them.

-Mark Steyn, "The Sinking of the West ", NRO

Backwater

Obama’s priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?

-Mark Steyn, National Review Online

Dog-Feces Ice Cream

It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix ’em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That’s the problem with the U.N.

-Mark Steyn, National Review Online