Anyone who has even heard of Marshall McLuhan is an over-educated, liberal, atheist, elitist snob who utterly fails to understand that late twentieth century America is the epitome, the essence, the pinnacle, the very definition of civilization.
I just love it when this three-year-old child materializes a few feet from me, realizes that Mommmmmeeeeee didn't materialize there with him, and starts screaming like a homing beacon on an emergency broadcast frequency.
If I were hungry, you would not give me sympathy. Sympathy would not nourish me. Instead, you would give me food. But in the long run, I must learn to feed myself.
A couple--of acquaintance only through the net--had the great good fortune to become pregnant, followed almost immediately by the great misfortune of a spontaneous miscarriage.
"Bittersweet Symphony." This kind of thing makes me cringe (first) and reach for the lead pipe (second). They bloody well ought to be calling this the "Saccharine Symphony."