It makes you smile - maybe even with a smile as bright as Jessica's.

Sometimes I wish more animals could talk.

Apparently, 80 percent of the world's population eats insects, either as a snack or a diet staple.

Few things are more impractical than a practical joke. But dang, they're funny.

Are Americans getting more stupid? Or are we just hearing about these insane 911 calls more often?

Honey Boo Boo's family? They're killing themselves. And the exaggeration is only slight.

Imprisonment has to be enough of an unpleasant deterrent to keep people from committing crimes again and returning - but not to a degree that they emerge with more scars.

Their lives would be much different today if it weren't for rehabilitation therapists.

We have to fight for a society that promotes a stronger family unit.

What Augustans want, overwhelmingly, is a university name that rightly mentions the city of Augusta.

"But if it doesn't matter what my name is, why did you need to radically change it?"

A mayor's monthly breakfast or a soldier doing yard work simply doesn't establish a religion.

Is giving money to a panhandler really the most compassionate investment in a human being?

America needs more Mayberry - maybe now more than ever.

From those humble overspending beginnings, America has come to this: a debt now exceeding (as I write this) $15.8 trillion.

Since the economy seriously started going into the tank in 2008, more people have sensibly had to get by with less.