"A new NATO targeting office."—Beth Sherman

"Retraining more autoworkers to run fryolators."—Charlie Glassenberg

" 'The Clinton administration's economic policy'; 'We're off the record, right?' "—Charles Star

"Union-busting, just like the good old days."—Francis Heaney (Daniel Kahn, Daniel Kahn, Carrie Rickey, and Chris Thomas had similar answers.)

"The importing, manufacturing, and retailing of crack cocaine."—Tim Carvell (similarly, but soft drugs, Rich Beadle)

"A large campaign contribution to me."—Mark "Delaware: now 14 days without rich kids abandoning their newborns" Shotzberger

"1.2 billion Chinese."—Marsha Fleming

"The annexation of Mexico."—Daniel Kahn (similarly, but Canada, Brooke Saucier)

"Untaxed Internet porn."—Arthur T.S. Jackson (similarly, Josh Kamensky and Travis Young)

"Continued funding of the Osprey."—Mark Greenberg

"Child labor."—Francis Heaney

"Sweatshops."—Mark Romoser, Dilan Esper, Credence Fogo, and Jill Pope

"Overturning the 13^th Amendment."—Dawn Aberg and Gary Frazier

"Alchemy, my friends, alchemy."—Michael Gerber

"The increasing popularity of golf."—Steve Spencer

"Diana Ross' hair."—Winter Miller

"Trade with Mars and Venus."—Mark Romoser

"Ronald Reagan. Some people never give up."—David Ballard

"Sucking up to Bill Gates."—Mary Anne Townsend

"So I agree with AOL Time Warner's acquisition of both."—Peter Lerangis

"Corporate sponsorship of government."—Carl Dietrich

"Krispy Kreme franchises."—Jane "Wow, two tangential references to my education in one question" Bu

"A good war, hell, any war."—Tim McAndrew

"Elián González."—Katha Pollitt, Tom Tegtmeyer, and Robert Rothman (similarly, Jill Pope and Sharon Dynek)

"Hallmark copywriters."—Anthony Wright

"Creative accounting."—Brooke Saucier

"Wait, now, I used to support organized labor, but now it's trying to change the color of the sky and the shape of the Earth? That's going too far."—Francis Heaney

"The magical phenomenon that is Harry Potter, at least once the damn movie gets into production."—John Leary

"I'm toast in November because George W. Bush's California coattails are going to be shorter than a teen-ager's attention span and ... wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, and capitalism is the key."—Doug Ingram

"Firm, well-formed bowel movements."—Ron Anguiano

"Artificially inseminating 20 million women with the Apple Computer co-founder/CEO's sperm."—William Torrey

"Danni Ashe going public."—Daniel Krause

"Hyping the crap out of a movie based on a crappy Bret Easton Ellis novel."—Adam "Is there any other kind?" Bonin

"Jann Wenner hiring not merely enough lackeys to place US Weekly in the 'pockets' of every supermarket checkout counter in America, but also hiring goons to follow people home and force them to READ it."—Ken Tucker

"The gods of real estate, whom I worship with all of my being, paving over every last inch of my district."—Steve "David Dreier is my congressman" Hellerman

"Our proposal to make it an orange cube."—Daniel Kahn (similarly, Peter Lerangis, Steven Davis, and Josh Kamensky)

"Well, if you follow the rest of the analogy logically, moving inward from the sky, the answer must be 'the molten core of the Earth.' "—Francis Heaney

"NAFTA. 'The jobs are in Mexico,' Dreier added, 'and they don't feature our safety protections or—how do you say?—minimum wage. But they're still jobs, and we created them.' "—Tim Carvell

"Getting rid of all the brown and sort of brown people. (He is Republican, non?)"—Larry Amoros