Washington Is A City Of Locker-room Boys,

We All Look Good For Our Age. Except For Our Necks.

When I Buy A New Book, I Always Read The Last Page First, That Way In Case I Die Before I Finish, I Know How It Ends. That, My Friend, Is A Dark Side.

New Orleans Is One Of The Two Most Ingrown, Self-obsessed Little Cities In The United States. (the Other Is San Francisco.)

With Any Child Entering Adolescence, One Hunts For Signs Of Health, Is Desperate For The Smallest Indication That The Child's Problems Will Never Be Important Enough For A Television Movie.

I Am Living In The Google Years, No Question Of That. And There Are Advantages To It. When You Forget Something, You Can Whip Out Your Iphone And Go To Google. The Senior Moment Has Become The Google Moment, And It Has A Much Nicer, Hipper, Younger, More Contemporary Sound, Doesn't It? By Handling The Obligations Of The Search Mechanism, You Almost Prove You Can Keep Up.... You Can't Retrieve You Life (unless You're On Wikipedia, In Which Case You Can Retrieve An Inaccurate Version Of It).