The popular view is that, although technology and GDP advance, morals and society are treading water or, depending on your choice of newspaper, sinking back into decadence and barbarism.

But drawing from my pants an old Hoover flag left over from my father's failed youth, I see I lack the least smudge of a penny to pay salvation's cover charge … with. So I begin circling the block drunkenly, in a holding pattern, …

Purchas, speaking of the use of a labret by certain Mexicans, makes Peter Martyr say “that he doth not remember that he ever saw so filthy and ugly a sight,[…]

No Washingtonian reached first after the sixth inning, and no New Yorkian after the fifth, save Chase, who tripled, with one out, in the seventh, and was left at third.