As soon as night begins to spread its darkening shadows over our brief twilight, this active creature sets out on its hunting excursions, roaming over field and gully with soft, noiseless flight, one of the advantages it owes to its flocculent plumage; its cry of morepork, morepork, is repeated at frequent intervals, sometimes with the utmost rapidity of utterance; …

A timekeep gave us our cards and our badges and told us where to punch in and then let out a yell for Johnson, our straw boss.

Because some of the stories that the Sultana told are nifties, the plays are sometimes edited. This facilitates production and eliminates a lot of questions from the kids when they get home.

Like others, I followed Clinton's apologies on TV and in print and laughed at the I'm Sorry Chorus from the also-unclean GOP choir. I've said it before: This is irritainment - a macabre mix of irritation and entertainment. The nastiness is a crime scene right in front of us.