The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There are dozens of these parties, sponsored by large corporations with a sincere public-spirited desire to become larger.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

I think if you use Twitter and social media as your main source of information you are an idiot, but I think most people who use it know better, so I kind of enjoy it.