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We Journalists Are Never So Idiotic As When We Analyze Things That We Shouldn't Be Analyzing.

Back In George W. Bush's Second Term, When Diplomatic Realism Began To Overtake Foolish Bellicosity, The President Developed One Of His Patented Nicknames For The Two Most Powerful Neoconservative Journalists, William Kristol And Charles Krauthammer: He Called Them 'the Bomber Boys.'

I Believe That Poverty Is Often The Result Of Inappropriate Behavior - Out-of-wedlock Births, Dropping Out Of School, Crime And Drugs - Which Should Not Be Rewarded. But Often It Isn't, And Common Decency Requires That We Take Care Of The Least Of These.

Dictating To Dictators Doesn't Work; They Are Congenitally Delusional About Their Own Indispensability.

What Do You Do In A Novel? You Take Recognizable Characters From Your Own Life, And You Fantasize About What They're Really Like.