Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.