A Rumor Is One Thing That Gets

Politics, It Seems To Me, For Years, Or All Too Long, Has Been Concerned With Right Or Left Instead Of Right Or Wrong.

Some People Can Carry A Tune, But They Seem To Stagger Under The Load.

Children Are Supposed To Help Hold A Marriage Together. They Do This In A Number Of Ways. For Instance, They Demand So Much Attention That A Husband And Wife, Concentrating On Their Children, Fail To Notice Each Other's Faults.

Book Burning Is A Charming Old Custom, Hallowed By Antiquity. It Has Been Practiced For Centuries By Fascists, Communists, Atheists, School Children, Rival Authors, And Tired Librarians. Like Everything Of Importance Since The Invention Of The Cloak And The Shroud, Its Origins Are Cloaked In Mystery And Shrouded In Secrecy. Some Scholars Believe That The First Instance Of Book Burning Occurred In The Middle Ages, When A Monk Was Trying To Illuminate A Manuscript. All Agree That Book Burning Was Almost Non-existent During The Period When Books Were Made Of Stone.

In Larger Things We Are Convivial; What Causes Trouble Is The Trivial.