Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

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

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.