As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."