"Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as tr…"

"Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eat…"

"The silhouette was named for Etienne de Silhouette, the notoriously stingy finance minister for Louis XV, who ironica…"

"There had been hoboes in the United States since there had been trains and liquor, which is to say, always."

"The geographic center of North America is historically located in Osborne County, Kansas. It is said that all armies …"

"The decision to drop the atomic bomb - that wasn't Truman, but sweepstakes winner Penny Holkum of Palm Beach. And for…"

"You can't fight a war on terror if you're ending a sentence with a preposition."

"This pie chart represents the $70 billion in tax cuts, and the majority of that will go to people making over $200,00…"

"If you make the smokestacks out of children, who will you force to clean them?"

"Look at Dick Cheney. Financially he's obscenely wealthy, but he's clearly unhappy. I wouldn't be surprised if he's vi…"