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Caution: These Verses May Be Hazardous To Your Solemnity.

It's Always Seemed Odd To Me That After A Group Of Terrorists Commits A Vile And Odious Deed They Rush Messages To The Public To Claim Credit For It.

There Is No Business Like Show Business, Irving Berlin Once Proclaimed, And Thirty Years Ago He May Have Been Right, But Not Anymore. Nowadays Almost Every Business Is Like Show Business, Including Politics, Which Has Become More Like Show Business Than Show Business Is.

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.

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.