The largest collection of car bumper stickers is owned by Bill Heermann of Lincoln, who has collected 4,131 since 1984. Bill began his bumper sticker collection in 1984 when he was in the eighth grade ...

One of the presidential candidates texted me the other day. “Last call,” he warned, then made me an offer: Pick my favorite of three 2012 bumper stickers and get it sent to me for free! A bumper ...

You’ve seen them before, in Trader Joe’s parking lots and on Eastern Seaboard freeways, in the quiet streets of Asheville and Berkeley, on the bumpers of a fleet of VWs and Volvos. White letters, blue ...

Jeanne Vaccaro, a scholar and curator from Kansas, always wanted to become a bumper sticker person. For years, she collected stickers from artists, musicians and bookstores, but she kept them away ...

In 1992, Bill Clinton was dubbed the comeback kid. In 2004, the comeback kid is likely the political bumper sticker, which actually has enticed people, after years of shunning such expression, to wear ...

Maybe not in the sense that "Nothing matters when you're dating a Jersey girl," but certainly in the way that Socrates famously divulged: "I know that I know nothing." This bit of irony from one of ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. Every once in a while, if you sort through the nonsense, the inappropriate comments and whose child was an ...