Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.

There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.