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Oversized Houses, Like Oversized Cars, Seem To Be A Particularly American Fixation.

You Could Go Crazy Thinking Of How Unprivate Our Lives Really Are - The Omnipresent Security Cameras, The Tracking Data On Our Very Smart Phones, The Porous State Of Our Internet Selves, The Trail Of Electronic Crumbs We Leave Every Day.

The Thing Is, I Have A Zillion Apps, And I'm Always Looking For The Perfect Arrangement For Them, So Scrambling My Home Screen Is Part Of That Eternal Quest.

In My Perfect World, We Would Establish Perhaps Four National Zoos Of Unimpeachable Quality And Close The Rest Of Them.

'brave' Is One Of Those Words That Has Been Bleached Of Most Of Its Meaning These Days, Thanks To Far Too Many Appearances In The Glaring Light Of Ad Slogans And Corporate Public Relations. I Never Thought About Anything As Brave Anymore; It Just Seemed Like A Flabby, Glib Cliche.