When You're The Only Pea

I Am Sitting Here 93 Million Miles From The Sun On A Rounded Rock Which Is Spinning At The Rate Of 1000 Miles An Hour... And My Head Pointing Down Into Space With Nothing Between Me And Infinity But Something Called Gravity Which I Can't Even Understand, And Which You Can't Even Buy Any Place So As To Have Some Stored Away For A Gravityless Day.

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.

Baltimore Is Permissiveness. The Pleasures Of The Flesh, The Table, The Bottle, And The Purse Are Tolerated With A Civilized Understanding.

The Young Cult Of Sociology, Needing A Language, Invented One. There Are Many Dead Languages, But The Sociologists' Is The Only Language That Was Dead At Birth.

Television Was The Most Revolutionary Event Of The Century. Its Importance Was In A Class With The Discovery Of Gunpowder And The Invention Of The Printing Press, Which Changed The Human Condition For Centuries Afterward.