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

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.