He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

New iPod. It looks like an iPhone but it can't make phone calls. So its really just an iPhone.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.