Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.