Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.
The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart.
If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.
People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.
In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'
Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.
People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.
I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.
Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?
