I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from all the same things they did when they were kids. Which I guess is a natural tendency, but it makes for a less fun society.

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

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

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.