9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to speak to each other manually; today one or both ends of the conversation would be carried on by a machine.
Dave BarryI guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.
Dave BarryYour 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.
Dave BarryFunny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.
Dave BarryWe're trying to make our current house look domestic so that somebody will want to buy it. We're making a lot of simple, obvious improvements that never would have occurred to us to make while we actually lived here, because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.
Dave Barry