It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.