From Thomas Sowell:

Thomas Sowell is my favorite columnist. I read everything he writes, and own many of his books. Every so often, he writes a column full of what he dubs "Random thoughts on the passing scene." This was one of his gems in the most recent one:

I realized how far behind the times I am when I saw a TV commercial for some weight-loss product, showing Marie Osmond "before" and "after." I thought she looked great "before."

On a more serious note, here is another:

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

I'll leave you with one more that is a bit more lengthy:

More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the "Employee Freedom of Choice Act," a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation-- which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

Thomas Sowell is an economist from the Hoover Institution-Stanford University. If, say, a million more Americans read him on a regular basis, I think this country would be a different and better place...certainly more informed. YOU can find his columns on townhall.com or at his own website, thomassowell.com, where they are archived going back for years.