I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

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?"

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.