The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.