Don't Expect Others To Do Your Work

A Reader Ought To Be Able To Hold It And Become Familiar With Its Organized Contents And Make It A Mind's Manageable Companion.

I Was Standing Next To A Famed Geo-politician When The First News Of The Argentine Attack [on The Faulkland Islands] Was Received, And Heard Him Muse Incredulously: "an Old-fashioned Naval Battle. A War Between Two Civilized Nations, Perhaps With Even A Declaration Of War, And Later A Peace Conference. Wow." No Hostages, No Nukes, No Ideologies, No Religious Fanaticism; Just A Fair-and-square War Over National Interests - Hard To Believe, In This Day And Age.

A Reader Should Be Able To Identify A Column Without Its Byline Or Funny Little Picture On Top Purely By Look Or Feel, Or Its Turgidity Ratio.

Carter Is The Best President The Soviet Union Ever Had.

I Welcome New Words, Or Old Words Used In New Ways, Provided The Result Is More Precision, Added Color Or Greater Expressiveness.