The only people who know about me are people who would know about me..

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that..

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life….

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing..

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know..

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred ….

Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of wor….

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a….

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert t….

Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-min….

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed..

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left..

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety..

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact t….

I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy….

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality..

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't..

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot..

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets..

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.

No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee….