"A group of 7 or 8 undergraduates were tossing around the bag from a box of Franzia boxed wine as part of some sort of pseudo-pagan spiritual cleansing. Little did I know then that I was witnessing an early version of Slap The Bag -- the first great American drinking game of the 21st Century."

"First of all, most Americans seem to think that there isn't much propaganda here, think that they can spot it when it does appear, and quickly dismiss anything they don't agree with as 'bias'. It never occurs to them that what they perceive to be 'common sense' is actually a pile of concocted junk."

Why spend $3 billion on another new bridge when we could give people inventives to carpool or take transit?