He yearned for the return to a time in politics when obese men with long beards was the norm.

When the banks closed we began to barter and when we ran out of things to trade we turned to banditry.

He wrote about drunken losers because he was one.

The flowers did little to hide the stench.

Time seemed to be accelerating at an ever increasing pace, except at the DMV. 

Ike left the numbers racket and went into insurance after he realized there was more money in the legit business of selling suckers the same line he always had.

The band "Cop Killers" began to question their choice of names after constant police harresment on their first nationwide tour.