So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.
Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.
Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
I think most people, when they take a look at the candidates and the positions of the candidates, realize that protecting this country and keeping this economy going are the two most important issues. And you can't protect the country if you retreat from overseas, and you can't keep the economy growing if you raise taxes. And that's exactly what the Democrats in the House would like to do.
I can feel the thunder underneath my feet