There arent a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but heres one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and heres betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if youre a parent, so do you. – Jeffrey Kluger
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats. – Jeffrey Kluger
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they dont get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues. – Jeffrey Kluger
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. – Jeffrey Kluger
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker