Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.