When mushrooms first in the dooryard bloom'd

If Ike was still alive, would you like him? Or are your sympathies more with the freaks that came later?

Adolph Hitler and Justin Bieber have the same number of syllables in both their first and last names, while Frank Sinatra has a dissimilar syllable count but is a far greater artist.

Even if you're not a big fan of photography, it's far better to carry a camera than a gun.

If you read, as I do, the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and New Yorker are you a de-facto resident of New York City even if you live in Cody, Wyoming, Portland, Oregon, or San Francisco, California?

By restricting one's reading to the obituary pages of the daily newspaper it's possible to believe that the world is filled with people who did only good in their lives and were financially successful enough to be greatly loved by both family and friends. If these posthumous accounts are truly the case, the front page of the newspaper, filled with murder and mayhem, is either a contradiction or an anomaly or both.