A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.