I am special, I am special. Look at me, look at me.

There have been days I've wanted to hole up in the basement with a vat of tapioca pudding and a Modest Mouse CD.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

After my article appeared in the Boston Herald, I received a snotty letter denying there was any such thing as 'an Iowa corn growers' racket.' It was from the 'chairman of the Iowa Corn Growers' Association.'

Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

We have been indoctrinated to see defeat as synonymous with surrender. It is not. Defeat is failure to achieve the political objectives of a war. This happened long ago.

What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore,' said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. 'What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets.'

Whether you use Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris (on x86), or almost any other OS, Windows content protection will make your hardware more expensive, less reliable, more difficult to program for, more difficult to support, more vulnerable to hostile code, and with more compatibility problems. Because Windows dominates the market and device vendors are unlikely to design and manufacture two different versions of their products, non-Windows users will be paying for Windows Vista content-protection measures in products even if they never run Windows on them.

I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left--though they blend and mix--on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done. And if I had any choice to make, I think I would always be on the side of, 'Gee, can't we figure something out?'

I'm skiing pretty poorly. So the only thing keeping a smile on my face is the ability to wear fun clothes.

Star thistle is the most common plant found on campus and can easily leave marks on the shins of those who do not wear pants.