Humans Treat Time As A Map And

The Charm Of Television Entertainment Is Its Ability To Bridge The Chasm Between Dinner And Bedtime Without Mental Distraction.

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.

Reporters Thrive On The World's Misfortune. For This Reason They Often Take An Indecent Pleasure In Events That Dismay The Rest Of Humanity.

I Gave Up On New Poetry Myself 30 Years Ago When Most Of It Began To Read Like Coded Messages Passing Between Lonely Aliens In A Hostile World.

American Foreign Policy Had Still Not Recovered From Its Victory Over Communism When George W. Bush And Condoleezza Rice Took Over At The White House In 2001.