If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.