* If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
* Favorite sports name: the Macon Whoopee, a now defunct minor league hockey team.
* We live, inarguably, in a time when rhetorical dissents too often devolve into verbal assaults. It’s enough to make you pine for a time when insults had, well, a touch of class. To wit:
^ “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”–Oscar Wilde.
^ “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”–Andrew Lang.