We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.

It happens because we have jammed so much into the base of the natural ocean pyramid that these bacteria clog it up and overfill onto our beaches.

But in fact, those molecules are spinning at the rate of about a million revolutions per second they're agitating back and forth their size every two nanoseconds they're completely crowded together, they're jammed, they're bashing up against each other.

At daybreak, people line up before department stores to get the special early bird bargains. In Europe, black Saturday falls in the last weekend of July, when the French and other Europeans set off in droves for their Mediterranean holiday destinations, and highways get jammed with traffic.

If you can nourish yourself adequately without eating meat, isn t buying meat needlessly causing, or at least being complicit in causing, the death of an animal? Isn t buying eggs from hens who have led a miserable life, jammed into small wire cages, needlessly causing, or being complicit in causing, the suffering of animals?

And I think what's very revealing is that the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much, are starting to notice the caliber of students coming to them is falling. These kids have wonderful marks they have CVs jammed with extracurriculars, to the point that would make your eyes water.

Members of the new middle class suffer from the low quality of public services (particularly health and education) fret over job insecurity are incensed by the persistence of discrimination in the labor market and fume over jammed traffic and crime. But precisely because they have a hard time making ends meet, middle class citizens have little patience for leaders who cause inflation and interest rates to skyrocket.