Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .