Urban People, Of Course, Are Terribly Scared

Life Seemed To Be An Educator's Practical Joke In Which You Spent The First Half Learning And The Second Half Learning That Everything You Learned In The First Half Was Wrong.

A Man Doesn't Amount To Something Because He Has Been Successful At A Third-rate Career Like Journalism. It Is Evidence, That's All: Evidence That If He Buckled Down And Worked Hard, He Might Some Day Do Something Really Worth Doing.

Journalism Talk Is Part Of The Nonstop Background Noise Of American Life.

Inanimate Objects Can Be Classified Scientifically Into Three Major Categories: Those That Don't Work, Those That Break Down And Those That Get Lost. The Goal Of All Inanimate Objects Is To Resist Man And Ultimately To Defeat Him, And The Three Major Classifications Are Based On The Method Each Object Uses To Achieve Its Purpose. As A General Rule, Any Object Capable Of Breaking Down At The Moment When It Is Most Needed Will Do So.

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.