Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.