Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.