Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.

World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.