Life's parade at your doorstep

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke?

You good people know that in my essays I try not to wing it overmuch. When I write on live political issues I try to cite sources, if only in the near-subliminal form of hyperlink references. (Look at all the linky-loos on this, for example.) If I have an argument I try to build it from the ground up and hope whatever admiration my sentences draw comes …