As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

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