In America, It Is Sport That Is

Reporters Thrive On The World's Misfortune. For This Reason They Often Take An Indecent Pleasure In Events That Dismay The Rest Of Humanity.

Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.

Scientists Have Been Struck By The Fact That Things That Break Down Virtually Never Get Lost, While Things That Get Lost Hardly Ever Break Down.

I Worry About People Who Get Born Nowadays, Because They Get Born Into Such Tiny Families--sometimes Into No Family At All. When You're The Only Pea In The Pod, Your Parents Are Likely To Get You Confused With The Hope Diamond. And That Encourages You To Talk Too Much.

In Writing, Punctuation Plays The Role Of Body Language. It Helps Readers Hear You The Way You Want To Be Heard.