Serious Journalism Need Not Be Solemn.

Goat Cheese... Produced A Bizarre Eating Era When Sensible People Insisted That This Miserable Cheese Produced By These Miserable Creatures Reared On Miserable Hardscrabble Earth Was Actually Superior To The Magnificent Creamy Cheeses Of The Noblest Dairy Animals Bred In The Richest Green Valleys Of The Earth.

Live By Publicity, You'll Probably Die By Publicity.

Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.

Urban People, Of Course, Are Terribly Scared Nowadays. They May Yearn For Society, But It Is Risky To Go Around Talking To Strangers, For A Lot Of Reasons, One Being That People Are So Accustomed Not To Have Many Human Contacts That They Are Afraid They May Find Out They Really Prefer Life That Way.

Of All The People Expressing Their Mental Vacuity, None Has A Better Excuse For An Empty Head Than The Newspaperman: If He Pauses To Restock His Brain, He Invites Onrushing Deadlines To Trample Him Flat. Broadcasting The Contents Of Empty Minds Is What Most Of Us Do Most Of The Time, And Nobody More Relentlessly Than I.