Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

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.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.