Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.