Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.