Serious Journalism Need Not Be Solemn.

It Is Fitting That Yesteryear's Swashbuckling Newspaper Reporter Has Turned Into Today's Solemn Young Sobersides Nursing A Glass Of Watered White Wine After A Day Of Toiling Over Computer Databases In A Smoke-free, Noise-free Newsroom.

Strategic Thinkers Were Naturally Rattled To Find This Outsider Fooling Around With Their Work. They Had Been Thinking Strategically When Reagan Was Just Another Movie Actor Playing Opposite A Chimpanzee, For Heaven's Sake. They Think Reagan Is Too Naive, Too Innocent, To Grasp The Intellectual Complexities Of Cold War Strategy.

In Writing, Punctuation Plays The Role Of Body Language. It Helps Readers Hear You The Way You Want To Be Heard.

Caution: These Verses May Be Hazardous To Your Solemnity.

Skinny Women Don't Enjoy Being Told They're Skinny Nowadays. They Enjoy Telling You How They Got That Way, As Though Starvation Were An Achievement.