The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.