A disappointed reader of my earlier posting notes that the picture
http://www.olimu.com/Photographs/SixFlags.htm of myself with family at Great
Adventure seems to show me smiling. This, he notes, is totally at variance
with my carefully-cultivated image as a curmudgeonly grouch and NRO house
pessimist. I should like to assure any other readers who suffered similar
distress on viewing that picture, that I am in fact not smiling but
grimacing as I attempt to cope with back pain, lung problems, poverty,
parenthood, the rising tide of homosexualist subversion, and the imminent
heat death of the universe.