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God! I Loove This City!

San Franciscans Have A Bond Of Self-satisfaction Bordering On Smugness.

The World Of Manhattan Is Small And Tightly Knit, And The Man On Top Retains A Certain Humility. He Knows How Far And Fast He Can Fall By Looking At The Guy Across The Street. The View From The $250,000 Apartment Covers A Lot Of Ground, Most Of It Condemned.

Satire Of Satire Tends To Be Self-canceling, And Deliberate Shock Tactics Soon Lose Their Ability To Shock, Especially When They're Too Deliberate.

A Good Column Is One That Sells Paper. It Doesn't Matter How Beautifully It Is Written And How Much You Admire The Author... If It Doesn't Sell Any Papers, It's Not A Good Column. It's A Terrible Yardstick To Use, But In The Newspaper Business, That's The Whole Thing.