Dangling Punch Lines To Forgotten Stories Remain

When Your Government, Employer, Landlord, Merchant, Banker And Local Sports Team Gang Up To Picture, Digitize And Permanently Record Your Every Activity, You Are Placed Under Unprecedented Control.

Adapt Your Style, If You Wish, To Admit The Color Of Slang Or Freshness Of Neologism, But Hang Tough On Clarity, Precision, Structure, Grace.

A Reader Ought To Be Able To Hold It And Become Familiar With Its Organized Contents And Make It A Mind's Manageable Companion.

Sometimes I Know The Meaning Of A Word But Am Tired Of It And Feel The Need For An Unfamiliar, Especially Precise Or Poetic Term, Perhaps One With A Nuance That Flatters My Readership's Exquisite Sensitivity.

In Lieu Of Those Checks And Balances Central To Our Legal System, Non-citizens Face An Executive That Is Now Investigator, Prosecutor, Judge, Jury And Jailer Or Executioner. In An Orwellian Twist, Bush's Order Calls This Soviet-style Abomination 'a Full And Fair Trial.'