Misery No Longer Loves Company. Nowadays It

Serious Journalism Need Not Be Solemn.

What [man Landing On The Moon] Is Doing Up There Is Indulging His Obsession With The Impossible. The Impossible Infuriates And Tantalizes Him. Show Him An Impossible Job And He Will Reduce It To A Possibility So Trite That Eventually It Bores Him.

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.

Happiness Is A Small And Unworthy Goal For Something As Big And Fancy As A Whole Lifetime, And Should Be Taken In Small Doses.

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.