Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.

At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

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

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.