Today's reading consumer is savvy and intends that authors keep their side of the bargain. Just how pounding does your pulse have to get to count as pulse-pounding?

These fellows who propose on the JumboTron at the ballpark have a lot more confidence in the answer they'll get in return than a lot of us.

It’s important when symptoms strike that you get yourself directly to the doctor’s office so when your name is called they can all disappear. The symptoms I mean.

In a dynamic global economy that often doesn't make sense we do our young people a disservice by teaching them games that do. 

It is best to have a broad point of view in these matters. Any ‘best by’ date after the invention of the internal combustion engine is probably OK.

Forward-looking human resources departments meet the current labor shortage with innovative approaches. Like hiring prehistoric monsters.

A knife quivering in the woodwork right next to my ear might just be part of the evening’s entertainment.