Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.