In This Age Of 24-7 Headlines, The

Take A Random Selection Of Photographs Of America In 2012 And 2002 And 1992 And, Except For The Skinny Jeans And The Porkpie Hats, You'll Be Hard-pressed To Tell The Years In Which The Pictures Were Taken.

Stationery Is Addictive. I Get Mine Made In Paris At Benetton, And Writing On It Gives Me A Strange Thrill.

Cod Is More Responsible For The Discovery Of The New World Than Almost Anything Else. Drove The Vikings Across The North Atlantic, And John Cabot Discovered America By Looking For Cod.

There Aren't Any Looks Or Customs I Wish Would Come Back. Today Almost Anything Goes. Culture Constantly Devours The Past So There's Not Much That's Missing.

In 2004, I Wrote 'what We've Lost,' A Book About The Bush Administration. It Sold Only Reasonably Well, In Part, I Think, Because The Book Was A Horrific Downer, An Unrelenting Account Of The Administration's Actions, Bungles, Deceptions, Half-truths, Untruths, And Downright Corruptions.