It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they came up with the innovative idea of having a submerged nuclear submarine tow it.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.