The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.