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After such a hateful week of deliberate lies and irrelevance, it’s time to take a break. Here’s an intelligent palate-cleanser from Bizarro (KFS), which only requires that you have read some Poe, which, in turn, only requires that The Telltale Heart was assigned in eighth grade. Though we were assigned the Pit and the Pendulum […]

In Between Friends (KFS), Susan sometimes struggles with “older,” but she’s becoming more comfortable with “wiser,” which makes sense, since the phrase “older but wiser” suggests that the latter is compensation for the former. I prefer “older AND wiser,” and how sad if they don’t coincide. (There is, indeed, no fool like an old fool.) […]