Sensible or more worldly people accept the world and its sad decline with more equanimity. I take it personally. Frequently, I cannot take it at all. What I do take is responsibility. Doubtless too much. I certainly take time, frequently too much of this also. In fact way too much on one particular Thursday morning as Jane and I stood with the throngs waiting for taxis in front of the midtown Hilton in New York. The taxi wallah assured us that a wheelchair-accessible cab would drift into the Read more [...]