The Constitution of the United States of America, Article V, Section 1: "There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a hig… - Dave Barry

Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don’t necessarily understand.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

And thus Detroit gave us the Ford Falcon, the Chevrolet Corvair, the Studebaker Lark, and the Plymouth Valiant (my mom's car). As the Germans, and then the Japanese, began to send over better and better economy models, Detroit shrewdly countered with a whole parade of stunningly bad cars, including the Ford Pinto, which exploded; the American Motors Gremlin, which appeared to have been designed by very young, poorly coordinated children; and of course the legendary Chevrolet Vega (I had one of these), a car that apparently had rust installed on the assembly line. You know how, in old Star Trek episodes, when people get beamed up to the Enterprise, their bodies become sort of transparent, and then they disappear entirely? Well, the Vega would do that while you were driving it.