On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:55 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> The poets often get there first. This is from Tom Stoppard's "Night
> and Day" (1978):
>
> Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free
> press everything is correctable, and without it everything is
> concealable.
> Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't
> stand.
Right. The 20 mins I just spent reading the first section of the NYT were a total waste. Learned nothing about Haiti, the Republican/Tea Party split, opposition to Bernanke. I shoulda read Stoppard instead.
Doug