"The sport utility vehicle has been called the modern muscle car. What SUVs lack in acceleration, tire-burning ability, handling, and gracefulness, they compensate for in size, weight, and machismo."
"It is fitting that the Bush Administration should preside over such a grim, uncaring era. 'Compassionate conservatism' is as cynical an oxymoron as has ever been presented to the American people."
"American English is an incomparably broad, vigorous, versatile, mutable tongue that can withstand an unintended daily pummeling by millions of those who speak it."