On writers
Be brief. There is no use for meandering sentences here. No rose garden esthetics. I have seen the writers for what they, all to many of them, are. Amateurs at narcissism. Where did it start? The desire to crack everything wide open. To put it all out there. The silly hope that there still is ...

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The assassination speech


The president prepared a speech, but never gave it. His advisers told him that giving this speech would be "unwise with respect his security situation". In plain English: they were afraid it might get him killed.
Instead, he entrusted me the manuscript to "do the right thing". I don't know exactly what he meant by that, ...