Americans Treat History Like A Cookbook. Whenever

Industrial-strength Foolishness Sets In-in Males, At Least-at About The Age Of 18. This Is Why The Military Prefers Males In The 18-to-25-year-old Range When There's Combat To Be Done.

Most English Speakers Do Not Have The Writer's Short Fuse About Seeing Or Hearing Their Language Brutalized. This Is The Main Reason, I Suspect, That English Is Becoming The World's Universal Tongue: English-speaking Natives Don't Care How Badly Others Speak English As Long As They Speak It. French, Once Considered Likely To Become The World's Lingua Franca, Has Lost Popularity Because Those Who Are Born Speaking It Reject This Liberal Attitude And Become Depressed, Insulted Or Insufferable When Their Language Is Ill Used.

Notice, For Example, That People Who Talk About "the Joys Of Childhood" Are Always Adults. Only An Adult, Utterly Remote From The Reality Of Childhood, Could Suppose It Is Time Of Joys.

Caution: These Verses May Be Hazardous To Your Solemnity.

It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.