Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.