During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.