Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not… — John Hodgman

There had been hoboes in the United States since there had been trains and liquor, which is to say, always.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)

The silhouette was named for Etienne de Silhouette, the notoriously stingy finance minister for Louis XV, who ironically was himself incapable of casting a shadow, due to lycanthropy.