A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but what keeps it there?

In geological time, mankind is but the grit under God’s fingernails. Is it a wonder that we love the grit less than He?

A car may drive itself without our intervention, but how does it know where to go? True singularity would stipulate that either the car knows where we want to go, or, more singular yet, that we want to go where it wants to take us.

Singing the body electric does not make it so. We generate our own electricity, but have no control over it. Electric impulses in the heart work — sinus rhythm — or don’t — atrial fibrillation. We’re a machine that runs in spite of ourselves.

Soccer holds up a mirror to our lives, so much failure, so little scoring, moments of brilliance coupled with abject despair, and yet, we’ll take a 1 to nil for our side any day.

That said, does anyone really believe the US has a chance to make to the knockout round playing against Germany, Portugal, and Ghana?