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In Today's World, You Would Call My Father Mostly Unaccessible. I'm Not Sure That Isn't True Of Most Fathers At That Time. He Went Through The Depression. I Don't Know What That Would Have Done To My Psyche.

The Problem Is That We Live In An Uptight Country. Why Don't We Just Laugh At Ourselves? We Are Funny. Gays Are Funny. Straights Are Funny. Women Are Funny. Men Are Funny. We Are All Funny, And We All Do Funny Things. Let's Laugh About It.

Because Of The Spin-meisters And The Focus Groups And The Way Politics Is Run Now. It's Run By Polls And Focus Groups. So It's Even More True Today, I Think, Than It Was Some 40 Years Ago.

Well, If You’re A Native Chicagoan, You Know How Dumb He [dr. Robert Hartley] Is. He Gets On The Ravenswood El, He Goes Past His Stop On Sheridan Road, He Gets Off In Evanston, Where The El Is On The Ground, And Then He Walks Back 55 Blocks To His Apartment. Now, Would You Want To Have That Man As A Psychologist? A Man Who Misses His Stop Every Day?

I'm Very Open To The Up-and-comers.