If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

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.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.