Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.
I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.
