Moping Is An Unattractive Attribute In A

Arrogance, Ignorance, And Incompetence. Not A Pretty Cocktail Of Personality Traits In The Best Of Situations. No Sirree. Not A Pretty Cocktail In An Office-mate And Not A Pretty Cocktail In A Head Of State. In Fact, In A Leader, It's A Lethal Cocktail.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Looks In The Mirror And Sees A Playboy Of The Old School. And Men Such As Dominique Strauss-kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, And Charlie Sheen No Doubt Look At Berlusconi And Think, 'role Model!' Women, Of Course, Know Otherwise. They See Him As An Aging, Pathetic Buffoon.

You Know, I Used To Warm The Thermometer On The Light Bulb... I Was Really Good At Being Sick. I Could Forge My Mother's Signature On A Sick Note So Well I Was Hardly Ever At School.

Memory Is Often - Perhaps Usually - A Distorting Lens: What We Think We Remember Isn't The Way It Was At All. It's What We'd Like To Remember.

My Suggestion To Newspapers Everywhere Is To Give The Public A Reason To Read Them Again. So Here's An Idea: Get On A Big Story With Widespread Public Appeal, Devote Your Best Resources To It, Say A Quiet Prayer, And Swing For The Fences.