I have to do that to get the door of my pickup truck open sometimes. - Rookie astronaut Donald Pettit after he used his Fonzie touch to open a hatch on the International Space Station

THE LITTLE boy next door reports that his class now is studying the Civil War and Lincolnomics.

Yet these parrots, with a bit of dead linguistry, which a Grecian ploughboy or milkmaid would have laughed at, thought themselves, and were thought by others, mighty fine scholars; and, as is frequently the case even now, very competent to instruct others.

That perfectly semperidentical display of idiosyncratic egotism which runs through…all his varieties.