Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?