The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

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

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

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.