Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Never have a dog. Let's not beat around the bush here: dogs are morons.

A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ.

And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.