There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.