I used to work in Silicon Valley and the Apple founders always said that they chose "Apple" so that it would be listed high in alphabetical lists of computer companies (in phone directories, etc.).

No Yosemite Falls? Some list.

That's easy to translate. Try "Democrat."

The young lady will make some young man a fine wife, once she's dead.

Everyone seems to be defining "excessive consumption" as slightly more than they themselves consume. Sounds like jealousy to me.

Spelled backward, "Pepsi" is "Is pep."

When you have $0, $6 seems a fortune.

What if she had offered not to pray?

His name should be Atlas.

You younger readers probably believe that economies always grow, salaries always rise, goods always drop in price (to $0 on the Web), and jobs are always available, even for those who wasted the opportunity given to you during your school years. Any study of history in general and American history in particular will disabuse you of that silly notion. Your parent's generation had the Carter recession, with double-digit inflation and unemployment. Your grandparents had the Great Depression, when about one-quarter of workers were unemployed and many others under-employed. Reagan pulled us out of the former and the post-WWII boom pulled us out of the latter. Who will save your bacon this time?

While we're at it, let's cap the salaries of actors whose movies bomb, rock stars who issue dud CDs, TV entertainers who fail to attract an audience. In fact, let's cap the salaries of everyone who makes more than I do. It's only fair.

A vine? Why not dollar bills? Or a shrinking Saudi?

Newspaper stands and trees by a road.

Do mathematicians count?

Unless you are a parent, you cannot truly understand how important children are to life. The defining purpose of existence is to reproduce, and those who cannot or can no longer reproduce feel a purposelessness that is painful beyond describing.