I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
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Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.Allan Sloan
I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
Allan Sloan
If a column is crying out for a good line and I can't come up with it, I troll for help. Communal humor is good, especially if you involve your boss.
Allan Sloan
Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
Allan Sloan
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
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My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
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