Being two years below the legal drinking age and a strict observer of all laws pertaining to the buying and consuming of alcohol, I would never even think of having a drink. Nor would I ever try, in a...
Going into this semester, I had the option to take a class on ethics. It was an introductory course, designed for students like me who, despite being too lazy to read philosophers, have strong convictions...
It is common for men, after romantic rejections, to withdraw all praise they had previously bestowed on the former objects of their affection and downplay the beauty of what they lost. This usually takes...
There was an exotic animal race last month at the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, in which jockeys mounted ostriches, zebras and camels and yanked them along the track for 100 yards or so, to the...
I just received from one of my correspondents one of the most vicious letters I have ever read. It is fifteen hundred words of pure scorn. From its rambling quality, I surmise it was scribbled out in one...
I once resolved, at three in the morning, to rise with the sun and run five miles as the first step in a renewed effort at athletic excellence. It seemed obvious at the moment for me to set my alarm for...
There was once a secretary of state who was asked to give an address at a Thanksgiving dinner. He began, “You have been giving your attention to a turkey stuffed with sage; you are now about to consider...
I have just received an astonishing letter from one of my female readers pertaining to the dynamic between men and women at Tulane, and I feel obliged, lest her sentiments go unheard, to share it with...
There is nothing more distracting to me when I am sitting in class than a pen and paper. Try as I might to focus, I am soon struck by a random thought and begin to scribble it out. For this reason, I keep...
