[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

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

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.