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.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.