But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.
One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!
What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
If we lost everything except for the clothes we stood up in, would we turn to each other and think....How lucky we really were?
