The Constitution authorizes the U.S. Congress to exercise its limited powers -- including the disposition of federal tax dollars -- to promote "the general welfare." It doesn't say "someone's welfare.

Back on 2003, there was a great story in The Onion: I thought of that when I read the knickers-knotting hysteria over my comparing the boring life that the other guy from Wham! went on to lead after ...

Remember Mr. Creosote? If you don’t, he’s worth getting to know — but only if you have a very strong stomach. Mr. Creosote was the colossally obese character in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life who ...

IT hadn't been a good start to the day. An attempt to video Channel 4's The Morning Line – an excellent source for all the day's early racing information – had ended in dismal failure. This is not the ...

With its shelves packed to bursting, Kinokuniya is like the Mr. Creosote of bookstores: Just one more Haruki Murakami, you think, one more pink-covered tween fashion mag, and the place might explode.

A four-hanky codgerfest that’s supposedly about the ennobling gravitas of impending mortality, “The Bucket List” put me in mind of a bucket, all right: the one in “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.” ...