Why Should We Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

Canada Is Not So Much A Country As A Clothesline Nearly 4,000 Miles Long. St John's In Newfoundland Is Closer To Milan, Italy Than To Vancouver.

Kind 'guardian' Readers Have Been Forwarding Me Round Robin Christmas Newsletters For Years Now: Lengthy Missives Full Of Perfect Children, Exotic Holidays, Talented Pets And Endless, Tedious Detail. The Notes That Accompanied Them Revealed They Had Inspired In The Original Recipients Everything From Mild Irritation To Absolute Rage.

Switzerland Still Has A Huge Share Of The Watch Market, All Advertised At The Airport On Illuminated Hoardings. Gosh, They Are Ugly.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, Having To Live With That Name All Her Life. It's The Boy Named Sue Syndrome; At The Very Least It Will Toughen Her Up.