"To rule one’s tongue, especially at a banquet, and not to speak ill of one’s neighbors; for if one does so one is sure to hear what one will not like."

"There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still e…"

"y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any p…"

"Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the nec…"

"So whenever the tug of populism tempts us to pass measures without regard of their fiscal cost, he is there…"

"We have been threatened by a local conservative group who said they will picket the show unless I am fired …"

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects... the quality of the connections is the key to qua…"