Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.