Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

It's no fun being a specimen.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.