The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty