Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

First and foremost: Feed people.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.